Floor plan 2 floors and hip roof

The color will be one of the last things we decide on. We want a visual contrast. Exactly how it will look in the end remains to be seen. Maybe reversed, maybe different colors, maybe just a subtle difference. Since this has no technical relevance, we can still look at real houses and stones and decide freely according to taste.

I know the thread about the roof pitch. Generally, I would tend towards 30°, but it is only a picture after all. What about susceptibility to storms? Is the choice of tiles really heavily restricted? Are there other relevant, noteworthy differences? Or is it really just a matter of taste?

For photovoltaics, the difference is at most 2-3%, which is at best nice, not decisive.

The "duplication" (jump back and dark red) is hopefully not meant seriously.

This mainly refers to ... why add the wall projections when the areas are to be highlighted by color anyway. However, with the wall projections, one restricts oneself in the "interior" of the floor plan.

We want a visual contrast. How exactly it should ultimately look will be revealed.

The subtlety of the layout using only the shadow edge is destroyed if a color differentiation is added. That looks— even with only a slight contrast— too heavily made-up.

I know the thread about the roof pitch. Generally, I would tend to 30°,

One should not forget that with the hip roof, the pitch at the "miter" is perceived as more defining than the orthogonally measured pitch of the surface. Practically, the hip roof therefore always appears somewhat flatter compared to the nominally same pitch at the gable of the gable roof. One should also not overlook the angle between the viewer’s eye level (standing, at the fence of their own property or from the opposite side of the street) and the eaves. At 20° roof pitch, depending on the viewing distance, you have to "believe" that the roof is pitched—often you cannot see it from below anymore.

Analogous to temperatures, one could say accordingly: a hip roof of a two-story building with a nominal 28° pitch "feels" like only 22°.

why still the wall projections when you want to highlight the areas with color anyway.

...because I would never think of painting a flat wall in different colors. But as I said, we will take a look at that in new development areas or at the stone supplier in real life and then decide according to taste. However, it's not like it has never been done before, and I don't find anything fundamentally tasteless about it. Thanks for the explanations. That reinforces our decision not to take the 20°.

However, it's not as if this has never been done before

I know, unfortunately. When walking through new development areas, it's sometimes better to have an Underberg with you

and I don't find anything fundamentally tasteless about it.

So-called 3D visualizations unfortunately don't change the fact that someone’s imagination is still more "calibrated" to 2D. Double contrasts in color/profile are often underestimated (i.e., combined they are designed too strong because they looked milder on the screen). That doesn’t necessarily make the result outright ugly, but it is indeed "overpainted."

About the roof: take a look at the roofs of the town villas in newly developed areas and ask the residents about the roof pitch. You can adopt whatever you like. However, you must consider that with smaller outer dimensions the roof does not go as high, it grows with the diagonal.

About the facade design: my fellow contributors here are right that these niches in the middle of the facades within the footprint restrict placement options. It is easy to see in the kitchen if the kitchen unit is planned that way. Personally, I definitely find the symmetry, the color, and the recesses too much. Each side looks (almost) the same. Unexciting and boring. Yet one feature should actually make the house a bit more exciting. Since you make the color dependent on one corner, you might want to omit one/two/three corners and colors and instead possibly choose a showcase side. Regarding the windows, I would probably dare to deviate with two of them. Of course, not arbitrarily but thoughtfully.

About the interior design: The floor-to-ceiling window in the bedroom is too big and lets in too much heat. Also, there is no sense of privacy. I also agree with if the kitchen should be connected to the main terrace. Basically, this is of course a nice floor plan. I would mirror the whole house along the horizontal axis of the plan. In the kitchen, omit this niche and create a nice terrace access there. In front, an island, kitchen units accordingly. Since I cannot refer to the floor plans while writing, one probably has to compromise a bit with storeroom etc. Storeroom in the south? Critical? I would also, if possible, place the children's rooms on the south side. The rest will work itself out?! It could be that the stairs make some things impossible. But it’s worth trying. It should also work since the stairs would also be mirrored. Yes, as already said: bedroom window in the south is an illusion, so rather pay attention to the kids getting sun in winter. If necessary, the roller shutters on the south side can be closed. The children still have alternative windows, preferably with sills. The WC on the ground floor is also nicer in the northwest so that guests or the postman don’t have to walk far. You can still free up space for the cloakroom, possibly the storeroom could also be combined here...