City villa 160 sqm with side entrance - can it get any better?

The orientation of the house according to the cardinal directions is of course the first choice. You have a plot with a northeast orientation – pretty much the least attractive there is. On top of that, you are only allowed to build on the west side. Even less sun.

I would bury the struggle to get the southern sun onto the terrace and come to terms with the facts. A beautiful garden can also be created in the north. The sun is there for a long time in the summer and shines from the west onto the north terrace. In winter, you don’t sit outside anyway; here it is important to get the sun into the house – not in front of it. Moreover, the house also serves as a shield against the street. Very few people want to sit in the front garden.
Excessively long paths are only expensive and unnecessarily take away square meters from the garden.

Therefore, I would probably place the house like this:


If after the first summer you find that the sun is not enough for you, you could, if necessary, place a pavilion in the middle of the garden.

Wastewater leaves the house where it is generated and is led together into a wastewater shaft. Rainwater from the roof (if regulated) also goes there and is drained. I am also surprised that "the utilities" are not collected from one point and led to the property. With the planned garage and the house and a north utility room, it would go east, but not south, at least not by a simple short route. Yes, the garage will be a real nonsense.

What speaks against placing the house more consistently in the south or at least putting the garage on the east side, so that the garden is not flanked on the left and right by the access path?

That would also be an option with the garage on the right in the south (edge development then as a repaved parking space), at least to better manage the paving and the path to the house.

The orientation of the house according to the cardinal directions is of course the first choice. You have a plot facing northeast – practically the most unattractive one there is. On top of that, you are only allowed to build on the west side. Even less sun.

I would bury the struggle to get the southern sun onto the terrace and come to terms with the facts. A beautiful garden can also be created in the north. The sun is there for a long time in summer and shines from the west onto the north terrace. In winter you don’t sit outside anyway, it is important to get the sun into the house here – not in front of it. Additionally, the house also serves as a shield against the street. Almost nobody wants to sit in the front garden.
Overly long paths are just expensive and unnecessarily take up square meters of the garden.

I would therefore probably place the house like this:


If, after the first summer, you find that the sun isn’t enough for you, you could, if necessary, put a pavilion in the middle of the garden.

Hi Katja,
I have incorporated your suggestion. Thanks.
This is exactly our plan before we learned – that our western neighbor wants to place his house entirely in the north. We found it more coherent to place both houses to the north. Therefore, we are also trying to find a reasonable solution for a south garden.
The disadvantages of this plan with a north garden are only that the neighbor’s existing house in the north is elevated and not particularly attractive to us.

J



and then to that ... 10.6 m wide house and garage exterior dimension only 5.15 m, while you already count the exterior wall of the house as the garage wall.

Where should bicycles go? Lawn mower and other garden tools? You say the garage is more for tinkering than parking, but you take away the possibility of getting into a scratch-free car in winter.

And then there was the important question .. From WHERE do the utilities come onto the property? You have placed the room for that in the north corner. Is that reasonable?

Do you also already know where the neighbor wants to put their garage/carport? And what setback applies to them? 3m undeveloped to your property or also 5 m?

Hello kbt,

The garage width is only meant to meet the parking space regulations, hence the interior dimension of 4.8m. The garage should never be used as a genuine double garage.
Since the possibility of a roof terrace on the garage roof will most likely be eliminated, the garage will not be located in the north, but rather on the street side in the south.
The garage on the east side is not possible, as garages or parking spaces may not be created outside the building field.
Bicycles, garden stuff, etc. go into the garden shed and not into the garage.
I have already drawn in the neighbor's garage, but that is only a preliminary plan. The neighbor must keep 3m distance or boundary construction, and must keep 5m distance to the street as well.

What do you think? Version 01

Then consider also placing the front door on the west side. Garage west, door east - you surround yourselves with access routes, and anyone coming from the street in the south will never find the door at first try.

So far, all houses have been positioned "at right angles" within the building window. Is that absolutely necessary? Maybe a creative suggestion.

The study is unfavorably located between the children's rooms if you want it to be rather quiet - for example, for phone calls or video conferences.

I find the suggestion below very promising.

Where should the bicycles go? Lawn mower and other garden tools? You write that the garage is more for tinkering than parking, but in winter you take away the possibility of getting into a scratch-free car.

Bicycles in a bicycle garage with a foldable plexiglass roof in the northeast corner of the property. Garden tools in a shed. For ice scraping, there are parking heaters.