City villa floor plan - children's rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows

I don't have time right now to gather the links where I have already talked in much more detail about comparable situations, but I still don't want to unnecessarily repeat myself—so here is a brief summary:

With a house width of under 12 m, three ingredients are absolutely sufficient to fundamentally mess up a "city villa" (or to guarantee it fails), and these three culprits are square floor plan, straight single-flight staircase, and symmetry.

Hello, I have another version. Isn't this one better? There is also a small storage room upstairs.

Why do you need such a relatively large office? Now you no longer have a kitchen, it is more of a cooking facility. Why the straight staircase? Why this fixed dimension? The storage room on the upper floor offers only one row of shelves with about 45 cm depth.

Isn't this better? There is also a small storage room at the top.

I’ll try to put it positively: Yes, it is not better But one could also put it this way: at the top, there is now a leftover area that can be labeled as a storage room. I join in the questions about the square footage, the dimensions, etc.

I can't do it like this. Even if I change the dimensions, other rooms become longer.

Why would you - you haven't learned or studied it.

A straight staircase itself is space-saving, since arches with deep steps or a landing are omitted, but: disadvantage: the hallways on the upper and ground floors have to "go around" the staircase.

Motte, for your information: when talking about the space requirement of a staircase, the hallway for the stair landing always belongs to it. Therefore, the straight staircase is the one that requires the most space, the 3/4 turn staircase the least, since about 2 meters of hallway suffice.

Hello, I have another version. Isn't this better? Above there is also a small storage room.

The staircase is far too short.

Hello, I have another version. Isn't this one better?

The staircase is far too short.

Yes, the length has interested me too. For your information: a straight staircase is at least 3.60m long. See the pinned opening post in this forum. But then you have a floor height of about 3.80m and the ceiling height is somewhere around 2.50m, with a rise of almost 19cm. Nowadays, floor heights are usually around 2.95m with ceiling heights from 2.60m to 2.70m and a riser height of the staircase of 18 to 18.5cm. With these modern values, a straight staircase is about 4m long plus or minus 10cm. For planning purposes, 4m is a good estimate.