s0nyHess
2020-05-11 16:01:47
- #1
Hello,
together with my brother, we inherited a plot of land in beautiful Hessen and have now, in the truest sense of the word, shared it brotherly.
After the division, I am left with an approximately square plot of 32x32 m. My brother wanted the western one, which narrows a bit, but whatever. Back to mine. We are planning a single-family house with a hip roof and two floors. Additionally, a 50 sqm boundary garage is to be built on the eastern property boundary.
Would you always position your single-family house parallel to the boundary garage, or can it definitely be built at different angles on the property without looking completely stupid (we are not interested in Google Maps, only how it looks from the street)?
We have already given some thought to the floor plan (a large open kitchen + living room is to be on the south side of the house) and the bathroom is planned in the southeast on the upper floor. If I get around to it on the weekend, I might also create a floor plan topic.
But now first to the property planning. What would you do?
Parallel or slightly oriented to the west? By orienting west, we are hoping for longer evening sun on the terrace, which should be located south of the house. But do the rooms in the east, like the bathroom and the open kitchen, also get longer sun due to the rotation? Also the living room with the large window front on the southern house side has longer sun in the evening?
My wife’s main concern is that it might look strange from the street if the garage is aligned with the property boundary and the house is slightly (12-17°) oriented to the west. Are there any architects or other construction professionals here with experience who can assess this? Or what do the other users here say? Can you do that or does it look stupid and the few hours of sun are not worth the effort/optical no-go?
Or would you even perhaps suggest a completely different variant??
Please let us hear from you
PS: The property is fully oriented to north.
PSS: the street of the residential area runs south below the property and north of the property is a field. To the west my brother wants to build a house in a few years, not as early as me. And to the east there is already a semi-detached house.
together with my brother, we inherited a plot of land in beautiful Hessen and have now, in the truest sense of the word, shared it brotherly.
After the division, I am left with an approximately square plot of 32x32 m. My brother wanted the western one, which narrows a bit, but whatever. Back to mine. We are planning a single-family house with a hip roof and two floors. Additionally, a 50 sqm boundary garage is to be built on the eastern property boundary.
Would you always position your single-family house parallel to the boundary garage, or can it definitely be built at different angles on the property without looking completely stupid (we are not interested in Google Maps, only how it looks from the street)?
We have already given some thought to the floor plan (a large open kitchen + living room is to be on the south side of the house) and the bathroom is planned in the southeast on the upper floor. If I get around to it on the weekend, I might also create a floor plan topic.
But now first to the property planning. What would you do?
Parallel or slightly oriented to the west? By orienting west, we are hoping for longer evening sun on the terrace, which should be located south of the house. But do the rooms in the east, like the bathroom and the open kitchen, also get longer sun due to the rotation? Also the living room with the large window front on the southern house side has longer sun in the evening?
My wife’s main concern is that it might look strange from the street if the garage is aligned with the property boundary and the house is slightly (12-17°) oriented to the west. Are there any architects or other construction professionals here with experience who can assess this? Or what do the other users here say? Can you do that or does it look stupid and the few hours of sun are not worth the effort/optical no-go?
Or would you even perhaps suggest a completely different variant??
Please let us hear from you
PS: The property is fully oriented to north.
PSS: the street of the residential area runs south below the property and north of the property is a field. To the west my brother wants to build a house in a few years, not as early as me. And to the east there is already a semi-detached house.