Arrangement of house and garage on property - critique welcome

Hello!

Finally, we have found a plot of land (700 sqm), but now the question is how to place the townhouse (outer dimensions approx. 10 x 10m) and XL garage on the plot. The attached image is already oriented north. At the bottom is the private road, which serves as the access. On the right and left are neighboring properties. The strip to the north is not a road but wasteland. Further single-family houses will follow to the north. The building must maintain a 3m distance from the property boundaries. The dashed blue line is an old, defunct rainwater pipe (it could probably be dug up if you want to build there). What do you think, should the garage be at the front and the house in the northeast corner? Front door on the south side and living-dining area to the west? Terrace also to the west with a small corner to the south? We obviously want it to be sunny in the evening. Disadvantage: quite open towards the street. The garage in the northeast corner would mean a long driveway (expensive, loss of lawn). Should the house be rotated a bit and really squeezed into the northeast corner? Looking forward to your suggestions!



Have a nice May Day
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Hi, I would miss the parking space in front of the garage, which is used a lot around here... Also, an ugly, unusable space is created east of the garage. If the development plan allows so much freedom, then just rotate the garage all the way to the boundary, leave a 5.5m parking area between the garage and the property line (5m car + 50cm buffer before the trailer hitch disappears into the closed garage door), and then rotate the house so that the axes are parallel to the garage. The exact positioning of the house on the property can still be debated for a long time, as this depends not only on the development plan but also on what is being built next door and how the terrain develops...

Is there a building window on your property?

The garage is not allowed to stand like this at all. It must either be 3m away from the boundary or placed exactly on the boundary (thus following the boundary line diagonally).

I would also miss a parking space in front of the garage.

I would move the whole house forward and place it next to the garage ([Stellplätze sollten natürlich noch davor gebaut werden]).

I have to stand up for the "North-West garden": from the afternoon (2-3 pm) the sun is also in the north – coming from the west. This way, you could create a really nice terrace in the northwest that wraps around the corner of the house. Take a look at Sonnenverlauf.de, there you can see exactly where the sun is and when.

Personally, I would never want my garden to face the street.

: The OP probably just wants to discuss the basic position of the garage here; the fact that it practically borders the property line is more or less self-evident. But even if the garage were built as shown... it would be approved in many cases.

: is right, there are now many architects/planners who create shadow casting models. This is important for photovoltaic systems but can also be used to determine on which days of the year the sun at time x, depending on the house height, casts which shadows/sunlight areas.

Therefore, there are two options for me, whereby I would definitely favor the second one unless it is/is to remain a very quiet residential street/dead end:

1. Garage attached to the house and facing north (a garage without house access is a disaster, a parking space would also bring that)
2. Plan house and garage with shadow casting modeling in the southeast corner, accordingly plan the northwest garden with a seating area/outdoor seating in the garden and/or a terrace on the west side

Best regards
Dirk Grafe