Family home on a large northwest plot

If the path is planned anyway, I would place the garage by the path and the entrance of the house as well. That way, I wouldn't have anything in the southwest garden and wouldn't have to go from the garage over the public road or through the living room when I want to enter the house. Also, I would move the house within the building window as far north as possible. The space is more than sufficient for a later bungalow as a rear building. [ATTACH alt="Bild1.jpg"]51346[/ATTACH]

Thank you for the interesting suggestion. A garage at this location could also make sense. However, it will probably take decades before the hinterland is developed. Until then, the garage would stand right in the middle of the large garden, thus blocking part of the view from the house to our green land. Therefore, I am rather unsure whether that would be the right decision today.

.. and why don’t you place the house in the rear building window? That way you’d have a nice south-facing garden and fewer neighboring buildings. If then the front part is ever to be built over, it would be less disturbing.

That is due to a combination of two reasons: We like it a bit private and because of the low position of our plot, with such an orientation about a dozen neighboring and opposite houses would be able to look down onto our terrace. Even drivers coming downhill towards our house (we are located at a kind of mini T-junction, although lightly trafficked) could still look over a higher hedge onto us and we onto them. But we don’t really like living on display like that and I find it more relaxing not to have to perceive every traffic movement of the neighboring streets.

We chose the plot especially for this reason, because the neighboring buildings were already there and thus we knew we could create a private, little overlooked retreat here. The new development areas where all neighbors can read along when someone opens a book, we wanted to avoid. If all the surrounding houses were on the same ground level, your suggestion would be a very serious option for us. But with the present topography, unfortunately not.

Unfortunately not with the present topography.

But it hid well on the drawings (???)

First of all, I have to praise the reference to the previous thread (from which, of course, I also flipped back to the thread before that). What can be seen here is largely based on a draft by you, which you titled "Kaho 1" in the previous thread, which I interpret as a draft inspired by Katja, but which clearly differs from a draft she contributed there (which goes somewhat in the direction now suggests here). Even in the previous thread, it had already developed quite a bit away from the Westphalian village school with coach house. I quite like it this way now — apart from the fact that I personally see the airspace essentially in the eighties. Overall, with these two previous threads, there is a bit too much material for me to recap now, so for the moment I will only address a small part:

In this specific case, I would rather see it as a welcome relaxation.

Yes, I simply named the draft file that way when I created it because I implemented Katja’s proposal for the staircase positioning in it; I should have actually given the file a different name, but once it is online, it stands as it is.

Nice that my intention to shift the windows has at least found a critical supporter in you. Then we will present that at the appointment with the architect next week.

But it hid itself well on the drawings (???)

Yes, unfortunately the development plans do not include elevation points of the visually relevant neighborhood. Maybe I should take a photo, although height differences don't always come across well in photos either.

I meant rather that your textual description of the topography and the drawings of the house in the landscape do not match: if you are not exaggerating excessively, then the drawings lie like printed, i.e. the plans are based on an incorrect terrain profile and the views show the house emerging from the ground at incorrect heights.