Dissatisfied with the architect's plan

If you plan the outside stairs, the matter will of course become much simpler immediately. Maybe you could sketch a bit how you had imagined the thing. Or are there examples on the internet that you like? I will immediately tonnieren the old plan so that no one fiddles around with it in the first place.

Yes, of course I can understand. We also tried for a long time to continue, but it was not possible at all, so we bore the costs ourselves and pulled the ripcord. However, we only paid him a small part of the agreed costs because the majority of the work had not yet been done by him (it was only very rough sketches without any measurements or similar, without cost planning, etc.). Therefore, we got away with a black eye and, in the end, did not lose much money. Our problem was also that we ourselves made proposals and even submitted a completely self-drawn floor plan, and he just shut it down and did not respond to it. Therefore, we had no other choice. I hope you can still find common ground. But as it is now, I would not leave it under any circumstances! I see it like kaho: straight into the bin with it, don’t try to improve this or that, but get rid of it immediately.

and are unfortunately quite dissatisfied with the drafts. These are now the 5th drafts and still quite far from what we imagine.

I fully share the dissatisfaction. Just compare an earlier version - preferably the first one. That could make it clear where things have gotten stuck.

Unfortunately, I can only read Jpgs, not PDFs. I was just able to open the ground floor, the corridor recess is strange but probably explainable, so that there is space in the hallway to undress. I find the wardrobe too prominent, but it is not or hardly at all convoluted within the norm. Best regards in brief

What especially bothers me are the convoluted rooms. According to the architect, this is necessary due to the statics of the town villa...

That is an old wives' tale, although it's the first time I've heard it. I am amazed at what people in the Hunsrück imagine under a town villa. But well – already under "town" they picture Emmelshausen there.

I see a rectangular floor plan with a hipped roof (which, measured against today's modern interpretation of the term "town villa," can almost be called "steep") – nothing more. Visually, the whole thing looks like a two-family house, which is further emphasized by the front door being half a flight of stairs lower.

I’m just wondering why you would even need an architect for the construction of a town villa?!

Do you mean that for a fashionably current standard house type (with sample floor plans to be found on every corner), a creative person would be superfluous?
The discussion about the sense and purpose of architects is currently being held here, in my opinion, sufficiently – one can browse a bit; I don’t have to write the same thing multiple times in the same month.

One more question: what do you think about the split-level solution for the hillside location? So from the front door 5 steps up to the ground floor level.

A split-level solution should really catch an architect’s attention highly at this topography. It’s a mystery to me how one can look past it so obstinately. At the latest in the section, the planner themselves should notice that this is botched.



In my opinion, one should actually see immediately:
1) Turning the garage entrance towards the street (and approaching it there levelly without slope) would be a good opportunity to give it a passage into the basement.
2) As you can see from comparing the heights of the current upper floor level with the intersection of the terrace end / terrain slope, split level would bring the garden side of the ground floor to the suitable height for a terrace without additional steps down.

[I have marked the heights here in light blue / medium blue: as you can see, with split level and about 40 cm parallel shift downwards, you would get perfectly fitting heights like a glove, plus half a basement floor.]

If the architect isn’t wearing blinkers, the plot isn’t actually that bad.

2) As you can see from the comparison of the heights of the current upper floor (OG) floor with the intersection of the terrace end / terrain profile, split level would bring the garden side of the ground floor (EG) to the appropriate height for a terrace that is not stepped down.

Honestly, I really lack understanding when it comes to slope plans. Do you mean that you would then step out onto the terrace from the upper floor (OG)?