Attic floor (townhouse) or Frisian house with flat roof gable?

In a townhouse without a cellar and without a usable attic, you have less space than in a house with a gable roof and sloping walls on the upper floor.

How do others handle a townhouse? Always with a cellar? You have to store the things somewhere that would otherwise be in the cellar or attic.

Regards

Carina

I don't understand your argument. The space in the attic of a city villa with a 28 degree roof pitch, for example, is larger than in a 1.5-story house with a 1m knee wall and 40 degree gable roof. Or do you mean something else?

Best regards
Sabine

To build a one-and-a-half-story instead of a two-story with a flatter roof for a secretly cleared-out little room in the attic according to building law would mean, in return, shifting more of the counted floor area to the ground floor, where you need space for it. I see a Pyrrhic victory there.

Where a flat roof would have a gable or what could be Frisian about it has remained unclear to me. You can also build a Klöntür in an urban villa, but thatched roofing is not possible there. Whether tea drinkers live inside is not visible from a house.

What would have to be stated in a development plan to be allowed to build a certain house could be said if a fallen house were sketched. Just start by putting together a room program and distributing it across floors.

It is about a house that is rectangular and has a gable (ONLY GABLE) with a flat roof. The gable is not pointed like a mansard or Frisian gable. Rectangular house with a pitched roof and a gable which does not have a pointed gable roof, but a flat gable roof.

I hope it is clear now.

Regards

Amateurishly, this makes no sense. A house with a flat roof doesn’t have a gable at all, but rather the roof directly on the story wall, right?

Flat roofs do not have a gable; a gable is the area of the facade framed at the top by the verge in the attic. But I think I am beginning to understand bit by bit: You mean over the entrance portal, which projects from the facade, a dormer house - that would have a Frisian touch as a captain's gable or lord's gable. And you want to have this horizontally limited at the top as a compromise with another house type, with a flat roof on this part of the building, and around it a pitched roof, just flatter than it would typically be in Frisian style. As every mainstream house provider currently offers in their program: where it looks like they forgot the roof slope above a dormer and instead covered the floor slab puncturing the roof covering with roofing felt and made a parapet in front.

so honestly, if you only want a small little room for a desk and a few documents (max 10m² is enough), then just plan this space on the ground floor or the upper floor. it doesn’t necessarily have to be the attic.... with a city villa (without a basement) you simply have to make the floor area bigger to compensate for your storage space and distribute the office, technical room, and utility room across the floors that are available (ground floor, upper floor). so start by deciding which rooms you would like in which size and location. for example: - kitchen, southeast, at least 4x5m (because regular meals should be eaten there, closed) - living and dining together, dining area in the south, living area rather northwest so the sun doesn’t disturb watching tv, minimum 4x8 meters for a larger dining table (lots of guests) - guest WC on the ground floor (maybe a shower needed later?) 1.5-3m² - technical room on the ground floor (should this also serve as basement replacement space for junk?) 8m² - office/guest room on the ground floor (possibly a bedroom in old age?) 8-12m²? - staircase shape, straight, winding, etc. - maybe a large entrance area that can also accommodate the wardrobe of a family of 4 plus stroller and scooter 6m² - 2 bathrooms on the upper floor (parents’ bathroom, children’s bathroom) 12m² + 6m² - children’s rooms at least 14m² each, southwest - bedroom and dressing room for a minimum 4-meter wardrobe, north-facing (maybe also plan basement replacement space here) - utility room on the upper floor with space to hang and iron laundry? (laundry accumulates here, or rather on the ground floor by the technical room?) something like that could work. this allows an architect to derive a lot from it, and you yourselves can use this list to evaluate a possibly finished floor plan for your needs and more easily decide whether it fits you. you can also calculate which floor area you would need at a minimum (keyword plot size)