Construction costs per sqm - "fixed and variable"?

After having a lot of open space around me, I could never imagine living in a city apartment.

I assume we will get used to it; furthermore, the new way of living, according to the current assessment, will be balanced by the distractions, inspiration, activities, acquaintances, and opportunities we find there on every corner and at any time.

Like so many things, this probably also depends on the lifestyle. For example, if I rode a motorcycle, I would also need more space around me. And being able to set off from the house on a motorcycle ride into nature is, of course, also great.

Hello everyone,

thanks for the many responses.
Of course, moving in later stages of life is always a sensible consideration, I saw it that way too. I just misunderstood 11ant when he wrote that the Best-Agers will mostly BUILD again, thanks for the clarification. Just like the clarification that the "three built houses" are not all intended for owner occupation.

Yes, life is good in the Flair - if you come to the conclusion that your own daily routine is relatively average, then an "average house" fits well enough (Pareto and "Müller-Schulze" mantras *g*). And with some annoyances (stairs end at the front door in the dirt area), reading here in the forum you realize that under the given conditions (house size, 1.5 floors) they might have stuck with free planning.

In the "Zeichenknecht" plan, we only changed a few small things - fundamentally all the right decisions, but you notice that the houses work the same at first and changes always have side effects. Maybe you have more sensitivity to these if you plan with architects - but overall, you have to consider more main and side effects...

That might be worth a thread:
"We changed something in a model house, but did not consider this effect" - could also provide good tips for participants here who develop their own floor plans "based on XY".....

I only misunderstood 11ant when he wrote that the best-agers will mostly BUILD again, thanks for the clarification. Just like the clarification that the "three built houses" are not all intended for owner-occupancy.

"Building" in this context actually mostly means "new construction," but also "conversion" or the like. Essentially, it's about not making the nonsense of an inadequate building even worse when you can have something nice with less effort – loosely based on the Bremen Town Musicians "we find something better than the stairlift everywhere" :) And in the sense of the three-houses-people’s saying, the friend neutrally means oneself or another, and you can also have several "second houses": second houses in this sense are all those to which you advise yourself or others after having experienced the deterrent example of which house you built for an enemy. The "enemy" here means oneself (in the sense of "me, idiot!"), because with the first house "the eyes are bigger than the mouth," and you choke on expensive so-called must-haves (which the same devil whispered to you who also made the liquor, as at least Udo Jürgens sang).

And with some annoyances [...] you realize when reading here in the forum that given the conditions (house size, 1.5 floors) they might also have stuck to free planning.

Individual planning naturally makes sense to the extent that there are grounds for justified suspicion that one’s own wishes and/or conditions differ significantly from those of other ordinary citizens or show corresponding differences. If you only have one more child or similar "special features," catalog models are also well adaptable, cf. (in the known place) "Changing a floor plan in size."

We only changed a few minor things in the "Zeichenknecht" planning

Au contraire! – You don’t have a Zeichenknecht planning! The Town & Country house models are architectural plans, just not in the "Advanced Premium Design" sense. But they are designed by people with degrees to suit many families. A Zeichenknecht "planning" is something entirely different: namely the unimproved "redrawing" of amateur sketches for various reasons. A good standard design shows the true professional among architects and serves as a base model for copies in large quantities, whether the Flairs or the EW58 / EW65 (which were yet another whole dimension of the prefabricated house concept – by the way, here again the global level was far ahead of the Western level).

That might be worth a thread: "We changed something in a type house, but didn't consider this effect" - could also provide good hints for participants here who develop their own floor plans "based on XY".....

Thanks for the suggestion! (where I will implement it, one can probably guess - unfortunately not here: I once started a "mash" thread here as a "gallows hill" for discarded floor plans, whose title was changed beyond recognition by higher authority, I certainly won't do that again).

That might be worth a thread:
"We changed something in a prefabricated house, but we didn't consider this impact" - could also provide good insights

Why don't you start such a thread?
I think most people here won't reveal their weaknesses anyway. Such things are kept quiet.
P.S. A forum is actively kept alive by users. 3-4 more active forum participants can help by being present and asking questions. But you have to do it yourself.
And if you want something to come up, you have to clear your throat :cool:

I think most people here won't reveal their weaknesses anyway. Such things are kept quiet

I don't really know; is it a deficit to communicate weaknesses or wrong decisions? Others can learn from them if they want. I think I communicate our decisions/mistakes quite transparently. And presumably there are many more "errors" that I just don't see. ;-) You would have to ask me specifically about them and the "why."

That might be worth a thread: "We changed something in a modular house, but didn't consider this impact" – could also give good clues for participants here who develop their own layouts "based on XY" .....

I wanted to spontaneously start such a thread following your suggestion, but then I realized that, at least so far, I cannot yet foresee the effects. At a later time, I might have more "material" for such a thread. Your idea is really good. :-)