More important to me than the kitchen remains the orientation, access route, and parking spaces (inside the house or not). Do I understand the planning correctly as follows?
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If so, you are ignoring the entire prime side of this truly great plot with priceless views and privacy. Kitchen, dining area, terrace, balcony, and kids' room are squeezed against the neighboring building with a view of their rooftops or your paved area. Throughout the entire upper floor, there is absolutely no possibility of a nice view (except when brushing your teeth or peeing). The eastern corner of the house is dug into the slope, the other sides then somehow run out of the terrain – the office will be the freest. The long access path ruins your entire – uniquely beautiful!!! – west side and, by the way, will not work as planned because the slope indicated in the lower staircase section does not actually exist. And how the 6m wide driveway into the garage ‘ignoring the slope’ functions is also not entirely clear to me.
I basically find the floor plan okay, but it just doesn’t quite fit the slope. Or am I completely misunderstanding?
If it’s really intended this way and you don’t want to significantly change the floor plan, I would at least mirror it and/or seriously reconsider the internal garage. Maybe you could also place the entrance centrally (in the current left garage section). This would save you the current access path, allow you to use the hallway space on the ground floor, and give you a practical mudroom at the entrance with enough wardrobe space :)
Still, I would prefer a longer two-story building oriented west with the cars parked somewhere at the plot’s corner.
You have inserted the house orientation exactly right.
I like the idea of the entrance, also or especially because it would initially save the staircase arrangement and the access for guests from the parking lot would be more direct. However, I fear the entrance area might be too dark… I need to think that over.
Basically, I understand your objections and thank you for them, but I can somewhat relativize them. The location of the house should be as far left or as low as possible on the plot, so there is still plenty of space to the neighbor. Additionally, the neighboring house has a similar layout, so the terrace is arranged on the other side. So the neighbor isn’t looking right onto our plates, as the saying goes :)
I also think that on one terrace there is sun in the morning, at noon, early afternoon, and on the ledge in front of the dining room until sunset… and in the evening also the appropriate view … I myself am rather dissatisfied that you can’t look into the valley from the living room and would like to optimize that somewhat with regard to the windows and accordingly the orientation of the furniture. Exactly how, unfortunately, I don’t know yet…
If needed, I think you could still create a small terrace area with little cost in front of the entrance, or am I completely off base?