Detached villa with "gable roof" or flat roof

*clears throat* ......

A counter-running shed roof can be described as a staggered gable roof - is the building authority lenient there?

However, I have to disagree with the last sentence, because if you align the roof surfaces in the north-south direction (if permitted), then you do have the south orientation for the solar thermal system?!
With a hip roof, the roof surface for an adequate solar thermal system looks rather meager, since the hip roof tapers and the south roof barely provides the minimum area for a solar thermal system.

Winsen... Aller or Luhe? Feel free to send me a private message with the street... I might have lived there

I do think that a counter-running shed roof would be possible. However, the idea is more to build the large window front facing south, because of the light effects.

That would then also make the consideration of a (possibly planned for later) solar system irrelevant, right?

PS "Luhe"

I strongly suspect it.

Let's just leave out the word city villa... because it won't be a villa, not even in the city.

I assume it will be a two-story house or possibly a single-story with a recessed upper floor.

Why does a shed roof have disadvantages with solar? What do you mean by solar? Solar heating support or photovoltaics?

In the latter case, I find a hip roof even more suboptimal (is that a word?) than a properly oriented shed roof.

Yes, the idea was a house that has straight walls on the upper floor, with as high ceilings as possible – and that as a compensation, a single-story balancing area would be built on the side – preferably with a (unfinished) gable roof as attic. Is this possible, or would the balancing area need to be equipped with a flat roof?

The disadvantage of the shed roof would be that (with the planned southwest orientation of the large window wall) it would later hardly be possible to install a solar system in a meaningful way (on the roof area sloping to the north).

To be able to have straight walls and deep windows on the upper floor (OG) in (Lower Saxony) with single-story surrounding buildings, there is the regulation that at least 1/3 must be built single-story? - (at least that’s how I understood it).

That has little to do with Lower Saxony, but corresponds to nationwide state building codes.

Where the development plan prescribes gable roof houses _and_ a recessed floor (SG) is not explicitly excluded, this option is suitable and is mostly approvable. If and insofar as it really is a recessed floor; among other things, the exterior walls (AW) of the SG do not sit on an AW of the ground floor.

A building with an SG, however, is not a townhouse in the common sense, but a cuboid with approximately a half-story (about 66% of the ground floor area) as the last full floor. Some have a shed roof, others double-pitched roofs, again others a flat, tent, or hip roof. In one of the latest building projects, we proceeded because an SG did not provide the required space and practically built a half attic with a gable roof; however, on a two-story building. What I want to say with this is that it depends not only on the development plan but also on the willingness of the clerk at the responsible building authority _and_ how you approach them.

Rhenish greetings

Yes, the idea was a house that has walls on the upper floor, with ceilings as high as possible – and that on the side, as a balance, a single-story compensating area is built – preferably with a (unfinished) pitched roof as storage.

Do you mean something like in the attachment? Otherwise, please post a picture (with source) so it becomes clear exactly what you mean now.

Source: bbschenk

Rhineland greetings

Our house - see picture - was initially also planned as a city villa with a gable roof, since we knew from the beginning that sooner or later a photovoltaic system would be installed on it. However, we absolutely wanted 2 full floors. With some redesign of the initial drafts (e.g. a longer side) and adaptation to a slope, a rather classic house emerged – but with 2 full floors. By the way, the back of the house looks like a one-story building due to its adaptation to the slope.

Many things are possible. Incidentally, I have often read here that a hipped roof is also not bad for photovoltaics. You have three sides for the modules – east, south, west – and thus possibly better yields in the morning and evening hours than with pure south orientation.

Above all, it must fit, be consistent in itself, and also harmonize with the surroundings. Here is an example of a house with two full floors and a gable roof that, IMHO (!), works well. Probably requires an architect.

I like the house or rather both houses. However, the front house is certainly not in the sense of builders who want to build a city villa (as offered by BUs).