Dissatisfied with the architect's plan

Here is the site plan and development plan (much was subsequently relaxed again in the statute). It is a difficult building plot and positioning the garage is not so easy due to the distances that must be maintained.

You have to want and like split level. You end up running up and down stairs for every little thing, and children have a high "evolutionary pressure" to quickly learn how to climb stairs, because no one installs half a dozen gates, that would drive you crazy. We currently live in a split level, our children are still alive (not a single gate installed), and we would never want to build it like that ourselves. Even to go to the bathroom I have to climb five steps. Never again

Honestly, I think so too. We have two babies for whom I wouldn’t find split level so great, I don’t really like the look and the stairs would annoy me.

But I don’t like any of the solutions for the sloping site :-(

Actually, I would prefer not to take the slope of the site into account in the house at all and accept high costs in the exterior area for that. At least that’s my layman’s idea. I thought we had an ascending driveway, a flat house, and at the back we start with a wall...

Oh, our property is 297 or rather 35/5. So the corner lot at the little dead-end street.

Actually, I would prefer not to consider the slope within the house at all and to accept high costs for the outdoor area. At least that's my layperson's idea. I thought we have an ascending driveway, a level house, and at the back we start with a wall...

That would have been my favorite too. Is that doable? I would rather live with having the living room upstairs and stepping out from there onto a raised terrace or something like that.

Actually, I would prefer not to take the slope of the site into account inside the house at all and instead accept high costs in the outdoor area. At least that’s my layman’s idea. I thought we have an ascending driveway, a level house, and at the back we hold back the terrain with a wall...

I can understand that, and if possible, it would usually be my preferred solution too, as long as the slope isn’t too steep. I’m also not a fan of split-level or have ever seen it in real life, so I find it hard to imagine. How steep is your slope? It looks quite “severe” slope-wise for you. Our building area also has a slight slope; our plot, with a width of 21 m, has a height difference of about 1.20 m (so our slope runs from left to right along the street front, not like yours from front to back). So on one side, we excavated a bit, and on the other side, we filled up a bit and didn’t consider the “slope” inside the house at all. So far, everyone in our building area—including those who have the slope like you do, running from front to back along the length of the plot—has applied the solution you quoted above: a slightly ascending driveway, a level house (above street level), and then adapting the garden terrain to the original terrain in the back with a wall or something similar. What does your architect say about the solution you want? Of course, if the slope is significantly steeper than, for example, ours, I imagine it could be more difficult. Have neighbors already built their houses? How did they solve the slope issue?