ᐅ Why are most urban villas built with a square floor plan?

Hello,

is there actually a reason why 95% of the planned villas here have a square floor plan? Does that make the roof easier to build?

Personally, I like a hip roof, but on the other hand, not a square house...

Regards

Style. Tuscan style. It feels like living in the south, with lemons blooming, olives making their way into the bread, and wine vines climbing the pergola. Unfortunately, all of this takes place in Offenbach behind the S-Bahn embankment... Karsten

Hello, we have the townhouse based on a building plot with the dimensions 8.30 x 13 m (27.23 x 42.65 ft).

... lack of imagination... the fear of standing out... fashion... mainstream...
Back when a square floor plan or cube-shaped house was still called Quattrohaus/Quadrohaus, I liked them as well.
Our neighbor’s house, with an almost square structure, I also quite like, but architecture fundamentally looks different to me. I also wonder why anyone would put themselves in these constraints – the symmetry of the windows is completely uninteresting to me.

Best regards, Yvonne

In my opinion, the main reason is that this allows for the best use of space (at lower costs). For us, only square shapes are currently an option.

I have seen building plans with specific building windows that allow hardly anything else. While these are excluded in our area, with a maximum of 1.5 floors allowed. So, it varies a lot by region. In the new development area here, I only know of one townhouse like that, which fits there as awkwardly as a pig on a sofa. In the inner city, of course, these buildings from the 1930s are quite common. Karsten