Do you have ideas for designing our floor plan?

Tell that to the architects, then you'll hear something like: You learn in the first semester that main living rooms should face south.

I heard on the radio yesterday that due to climate change, there will increasingly be severe heat waves in Germany. South orientation is nice in winter but becomes a burden in summer. Maybe the textbooks will change.

Since we probably only live once, I would build the way that suits me and not what my architects say. :)

...the winters will become worse.

But a southern exposure doesn't help much either. At minus 20°C, only heating helps. ;)

..max. 10m wide house

Oh right, we still need 3m on the left and right. I hadn't thought of that.

Oh right, we still need 3m on the left and right. I hadn't thought of that.

Then I would leave the living room in the north and maybe add a small "light bay." Like here, for example. (Please disregard the layout of the remaining rooms for now, the architect will have to do that.)

@kaho, your floor plan selection is quite an idea... ultimately, a (proper) architect just has to project it onto the plot. Then the L won't necessarily have a double window, but just a patio door, and the building will be stretched lengthwise. If I approach it with graph paper, I would have an approximately 16-meter-long building on 10 meters/8 meters with a long corridor. But there are always ideas. I also found quite a few (standard floor plans) yesterday that can be quickly modified a bit. If Jan sticks to statements like "but that's how you build" or has something set in his mind that simply doesn't work, then obviously all examples or ideas are pointless. I also don't know why someone now wants to forcefully place a bungalow on just under 400 sqm when with a cozy 1.5-story house you would ultimately have more garden space to use. Because: if I don't have width, I have to go in length. With a 15-meter building, we would have (wasn't it 27 meters in length?) then still 12 meters... There seems to be no building envelope, but at the back there's only about 9 meters of terrace + garden left. For the builder, there seem to be no options ;)

Then I would leave the living room in the north and maybe add a small "bay window". Like here for example.

(Please disregard the layout of the other rooms for now, the architect will have to do that.)

Basically a good idea, but that would make the house too long. I actually wanted about 10m x 14m because I still want a bit of garden. And this small corner really costs money, since it's almost like an angled bungalow.