Evaluation floor plan approx. 145 sqm single-family house basement/ground floor/upper floor

But do not rely on the cost estimate of the architect. You can only estimate the costs once you have at least received quotes from the main trades.

To be honest, I expected the biggest criticism from your side to be the kitchen. It is already relatively small. Does anyone have a kitchen of this size and can perhaps report whether it is sufficient or if they would have planned it differently afterward?

We have a similar kitchen, easily sufficient for 2-8 people. The planning still has reserves, if a device or cabinet is open in the passage on the left, all walkways are blocked, awkward corner, 1-4 workstations possible, dishwasher cannot be left open, etc.

The detailed planning of the kitchen is still to come. But if something can basically be done with the size, I am relieved. :-)

More important to me than the kitchen still seems to be the orientation, access route, and car parking spaces (inside the house or not). Do I understand the plan correctly as follows?

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If yes, you are ignoring the entire best side of the really great property with priceless views and privacy. Kitchen, dining area, terrace, balcony, and children’s room are squeezed next to the neighboring building with a view of their roofscape or your paved area. Throughout the entire upper floor there is no opportunity for a nice view at all (except when brushing teeth and peeing). The eastern corner of the house will be dug into the slope, the other house sides then somehow run out of the terrain – the office will be the freest. The very long access route spoils your entire – uniquely beautiful!!! – west side and, by the way, will not work at all as shown, because the slope indicated in the lower stairs does not actually exist in reality. And how the 6m-wide driveway into the garage works ‘ignoring the slope’ is also not quite clear to me.

I basically find the floor plan itself OK, but it just doesn’t quite fit into the slope. Or have I completely misunderstood?

If it really is intended that way and you don’t want to change the floor plan significantly, I would at least mirror it and/or seriously reconsider the internal garage. Possibly you could also place the entrance in the middle of the house (in the current left garage section). That would save you the current access route, you could use the hallway area on the ground floor, and you would have a practical airlock in the entrance area with enough space for wardrobes :)

However, I still consider the better option to be an elongated two-story building oriented west, with the cars parked somewhere at the corner of the property.

Honestly, I had expected the kitchen to be the biggest point of criticism from your side. It is already relatively small. Does anyone have a kitchen of this size and can perhaps report whether it is sufficient or if they would have planned it differently afterwards?

I did criticize it! For two people, we have more running meters, i.e. 3 meters of countertop + 1.80 m tall cabinets + refrigerator + 1.80 m island at 90 cm depth... and last year we had to build an extension for the utility area (storage space for fruit/vegetables as well as kitchen appliances, Sodastream, etc. was no longer enough alongside the countertop, since habits change over the years).