Current building culture and energy-saving ordinance-compliant new development areas

I would be glad if there were a bit more regulations in our building area. The right neighbor next to us built on a slab and now looks out the back onto a 2.3m high earth wall. We don’t want that, so we are building into the slope and going out into the garden at the top – and are basically looking down into the neighbor’s terrace hole. But well, we have nearly 900sqm of land, so you can choose where to look and where to build your terrace.

A bungalow a little further away was also apparently supposed to be built on a slab. So much of the slope was cut away that the house now almost disappears into the hole. You can hardly see it from the dug-out hole. A basement or building up the ground more would really have been nicer.

@ Alex85

Yes, in the USA such communities are on every corner... sometimes you also think huh?

Often also in areas where 1000sqm are traded for three oxen and a pickup.

Look at housing estates from developers where the same house stands 20 times next to each other.

If twenty houses from twenty individual builders still only have seventeen different "faces," I find that additionally incomprehensible and embarrassing.

Building areas like those seen in the opening post, in my opinion, do not have "plots for houses," but "parking spaces for mortgages." After all, you only need to fence the whole thing in if the builders have all gone crazy from the "charm" of the estate.

I would have liked a mono-pitched roof too. But my wife absolutely did not want that. But I can live well with the 15° hipped roof.

I can't really remember a mono-pitched roof variant from you (?)

Arifas, like your neighbors with the dirt hole between slope and house, was also recommended to us very often. We could not have built wood studs so directly on the slope; the lower floor would have had to be masonry. The geologist said 50 cm distance between retaining wall and house, in case the slope slips so that someone can still repair the retaining wall.

The house must fit the property and the neighboring buildings. A bungalow on our property would have seemed very strange. 2 floors and a gable roof are not possible between the neighboring buildings and the slope.

I praise my property in the middle of the village. Nothing straight, no right angles, no property is rectangular, it is not possible to look from one end of the street to the other. The settlements do remind you of laying hen batteries. I would not have thought the properties are actually so big. Although the garden city settlements from the time before the world war did not look the same, nor the cities in the USA with their blocks.

The reference to the garden city of the interwar period is valuable. I think that in 1930 this settlement in Berlin would have been considered exemplary. Garden city meant, compared to Zille’s rental barracks, giving the worker an urban apartment with greenery and light and air. Certainly a progress compared to the 3rd backyard in Wedding. But the misguided idea of that time was also the thinking and feeling in masses. The ideologies of the time were fascism and communism, both understanding humans as masses, the aesthetics of parades, party congresses, Olympiads /Riefenstahl, comrade and you, no difference anymore, no individuality, uniform, that was this time as well, and that was also reflected in the minds of the architects. Only today many feel differently, postmodern individualism. But many, not all, otherwise such settlements and their uniformity would not exist. Thesis: there are again enough well-earning people with the longing for alike to associate with alike. Hundertwasser did not prevail. Karsten

It is not possible to see from one end of the street to the other.

Although the occasional street bends planned today are not really the way to go - better to keep it straight.

Hundertwasser did not prevail.

At the latest with the term "tree tenant," small-minded local councilors can no longer follow him. A proper German house carries a middle parting.