Arrangement of house on building plot; orientation of the house, opinions

Hello,

we (family with 2 children) want to start building the house next year - once the rezoning is done.

Before the initial meeting with the architect takes place, I would be interested in your opinions/ideas regarding the arrangement of our house & garage on our future building plot. A few details:

- Attached you will find the building plot including dimensions and where the driveway is located (the image is precisely oriented north/south)

- The house will be rather rectangular, about 13 by 9 m (2 stories with a basement)

- Garage for 2 cars and still space for bicycles, etc. (about 8 m wide). The garage should be built directly attached to the house

- Spacious terrace with pool

- To the north (stream) and east unbuildable. Adjacent residential houses to the south and west (a new house is also going to be built here soon)

- Orientation of the house (e.g. garden, etc.) towards the south or maximum sun

I do not want to add any further preferences now, as I am actually interested in your opinion/idea on how you would arrange a house here.

Best regards
Jochen

The question for me is: what does the [Bebauungsplan] say?

Best regards
Markus

the question for me is: what does the development plan say?

Regards
Markus

Only requirement: 3m distance to the property boundary (up to the property boundary possible for garage). The rest is flexible.

Best regards
Jochen

Move the house to the north, rather northeast, so that there is plenty of space in the south for garden, terrace, and pool. Garage west of the house. Driveway to the garage runs directly along the western boundary. Main entrance on the west side.

Disadvantages:
- relatively long driveway and also utility line route
- when sitting on the terrace, you always have the driveway in front of you (but this does not have to be a problem with appropriate design)

Advantages:
- huge sunny garden with perfect south orientation
- you are far away from the future neighboring development

Also to consider: should the property be divided at some distant point in the future? Then do not place the house in the middle.

Move the house to the north, rather northeast, so that there is plenty of space for garden, terrace, and pool in the south. Garage west of the house. Driveway to the garage directly along the west border. House entrance from the west side

Disadvantages:
- relatively long driveway and also utility line route
- when sitting on the terrace, you always have the driveway in front of you (but this does not have to be bad with appropriate design)

Advantages
- huge sunny garden with perfect southern orientation
- you are far away from the future neighboring development

Also to consider: should the property be divided at some point in the distant future? Then don’t place the house in the middle.

Exactly matches my (current) favorite! Since the driveway can only be accessed from the south, it can only be a compromise, and for me the optimal southern orientation (maximum "sunny garden") and the increased privacy matter much more than the longer driveway (e.g. about a 10 m difference between house in the north and house in the east).

Regarding the driveway in the west: I do believe it can be nicely designed structurally (e.g. beautiful stone wall or trees/shrubs) => then the garden would be visually and noise-wise separated from the driveway, and I would do that anyway for privacy reasons. Since the building plot is quite large, there will still be a nice, large garden.

In any case, thanks for your suggestions.

Best regards
Jochen

It's not that simple.
Driveway from the south, then you wonder where to put the entrance.
Possibly I would build the garage attached to the house so that an L-shape is created on the ground floor and the south garden and/or west garden is protected.
At least I would plan two areas: a play garden at the front, a quiet one for the evening near the creek.
Some sheltered floor-to-ceiling windows are suitable to step out of the house on all sides.
Feeling-wise, I would drive to the garage from the south, place the house east next to it so that an evening terrace is created in the west at the angle.

If I were you, I would cut rectangles and move them back and forth as placeholders and be open to all possibilities.
I find it harder to plan such a large plot. To maintain coziness, quite a bit of vegetation etc. would have to happen.

Well, that’s also something that always runs through my head, how I could somehow integrate the north or creek with the beautiful, large trees (about 35 m from the northern plot boundary), but without losing the south garden. I still ended up concluding that I would place the house at most on the northern boundary.

Basically, I think the idea is good that you can actually already use the garage itself as an element to protect the garden.

Thanks for your ideas!

Best regards
Jochen