Elevation - Bury it in the ground?

Hello,

we are about to start construction.

Our plot is located directly on a hilltop and slopes from northeast to south and west, with the access, as shown in the attachment, coming from the west.

Already in the initial planning, we had to somewhat "dig into" the house, i.e., we excavated at the back and built up at the front. Unfortunately, the slope of the driveway was 20%, which was clearly too steep for us.

We then specified 7% as the maximum slope for the driveway. Now we are "digging in" even more. Unfortunately, our construction company had no other ideas.

Therefore, my questions to the forum:

1. Are there any other reasonable options to position the house (garage and house cannot be legally separated, as part of the garage is an attachment)?

2. Does it make sense to level the rest of the garden as well?

3. What should be considered in garden design (water drainage, risk of falling at the edge of the property)?

We would be very grateful for a few helpful tips!

Best regards

Christian

Where is the terrace or garden? East side?

At what height are you planning your house now?
For our house, the front door is about 8.5 meters behind the street and the finished floor level is about 1 meter above street level. The garage is located another half meter further back and about 90 cm above street level.
So far, I quite like it because the slope is not too steep and the house is still positioned so that water runs away from it.

Since the plot slopes upwards further at the back, we have to slightly terrace the area for our terrace, but that is not a problem.

Hello, the biggest problem you will face is that you have to intercept all neighboring plots because you are sitting much lower than the neighboring plots. What does your architect say about this? I would definitely confront him with it. Because unplanned costs are coming to you.

The terrace is located in the east and basically wraps around the corner to the south side. The actual garden is in the east

Our distance to the street is 5.69m from the house. The entrance door is 1.31m above the planned street level, but the garage is only about 1m and 7.5m from the street.

Our construction company is not particularly creative there, and neither did our architect from the Association of Private Builders have any ideas. So far, there is only the choice to set it lower and pile up a little in front, then we are lower than the neighbors to the north or to set it higher, then at the level of the neighbors but with a 20% slope of the driveway, in which case our front door would be about 1.91m above street level.

We will discuss the topic of retaining with our neighbor to the north; to the south, the neighbors will probably also dig in a bit.