Floor plan 200m² single-family house, raised ground floor, existing plot, double garage

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The exact dimensions of the maximum building site are still missing. I was able to roughly calculate the width from the site plan, but not the depth yet. Could not find any measurements.

The short sides in the north and south, the long sides in the west and east.

Why?

In the west there is the existing house, which casts some shadow, but the photovoltaic system is supposed to go on the roof there.

Why? South vs. west is an energetic difference like day and night.

Pantry: Is used not only for storing food but also for kitchen appliances, vacuum cleaner, and drinks.

So would you prefer 2 small rooms (technical and pantry) rather than one big one?

Enough space for our stereo system

More exact in meters. Do you need more like 3m or rather 6m squared? Does a projector wall belong there?

Washing machine/dryer: Upstairs to avoid constant carrying of laundry.

A walk-in closet directly from the hallway,

4 large bedrooms, dressing room, laundry room with ironing facilities, and family bathroom. So eventually the square meters will all be used up at 200.

The recess in the living room bothers us visually.

You mean you don’t want bay windows, projections, gables, and similar additions? Or does it bother less if it continues on the upper floor like e.g. a captain’s gable?

The space between the kitchen unit and the windows feels wasted to us and not sensibly usable.

Please always keep in mind: turning the kitchen and, for example, placing it on the other wall, you have to be able to do yourself. That doesn’t mean a design is rejected yet.

The upper floor would be fine like this, but then please with a laundry chute into the utility room?

I thought you also wanted a dressing room and a utility room. So are you flexible if there are alternatives?

Basically, we can of course play around a bit here. But actually, that would be the task of your architect. For this, you sit down together in a detailed discussion to query and specify all these details. If he doesn’t do that and you feel poorly advised, then tell him. If that doesn’t help, find someone else.

The exact dimensions of the maximum building plot are still missing. I was able to roughly calculate the width from the site plan, but not the depth. Could not find any measurements.

My architect did not provide an answer to this question, even though I asked 2-3 times, he always skipped the answer. The depth should be 13.5m, since we can't go much further north, otherwise we would block the driveway of the rear residential building. I tried to illustrate this a bit.

Why?

We wanted to stay as far east as possible so that there is as much usable space as possible left between the existing house and the new building.

So rather 2 small rooms (technical and pantry) than one large one?

More precise in meters. Does it need about 3m or rather 6m square? Does that include a projector wall?

4 meters minimum, I would say optimally rather 5m

4 large bedrooms, dressing room, laundry room with ironing facilities and family bathroom. So at some point the square meters are also all used up at around 200.

We calculated roughly 100m² upper floor --> 3x 15m² children + 12 m² parents + 10m² bathroom as important rooms (67m²). Dressing room integrated in the parents' bedroom to save doors/hallway 8-10m² + laundry room 10-12m² -> rest hallway

You mean you don't want bay windows, projections or recesses, cross gables and similar extensions? Or is it less disturbing if it continues on the upper floor like, for example, with a captain's gable?

We would like to avoid it, but function over form. We want to keep the house as simple as possible, but if it helps to better realize our wishes, then yes.

Please always think along as well. Turning the kitchen and, for example, placing it on the other wall, you have to be able to do yourself. That does not mean that a design will be discarded.

Sorry, I understood and will do that!

I thought you also wanted a dressing room and a utility room. So you are flexible if there are alternatives?

Of course, while we primarily want our wishes to be implemented as well as possible, without compromises it will never work anyway.

Basically, we can of course play around here a bit. But actually that is your architect's task. For that, you sit down together in a detailed discussion to query and specify all these details. If he doesn't do that and you feel poorly advised, then tell him. If that doesn't help, find someone else.

We also communicated that. We're just hesitant because we would be throwing the money already invested down the drain. We will only continue to work together until LS4, and I hope that with your help I can still somehow come up with a good floor plan design.

We also received the first draft from him.

For the ground floor, he almost adopted our design. For the upper floor, he took an old project as a basis.

What bothers me on the ground floor: We have no cloakroom. He said to put apothecary cabinets under the stairs and store clothes there. I don't think that will work in practice. I would reduce the width of the pantry a bit and add the gained space to the home office room. Cooking: no kitchen island because too expensive, also the placement of the refrigerator between the doors makes no sense to me. The door to the living room is not needed, but otherwise, how does light get into the hallway? The technical room is at garage height but must be at house height, meaning the stairs would move into the garage. I think maybe with a landing and then rotate 90°. The technical room is probably a bit too small. Water tank, controlled residential ventilation, photovoltaic inverter, decalcification system and battery won't fit in there... I thought about removing the passage house-garage and directly sponsoring the space to the technical room. What bothers me about the upper floor: Small bathroom, there is really no space for cosmetics and such or a shelf for towels. Parent bedroom too short. As soon as I bring my extra long 2.2, I only have about 50 cm of passage, if I read that correctly. All three children's rooms too small. Room with 12.77m² not really necessary.

Otherwise, I have attached two pictures so that you can better imagine the plot as such.

House orientation: The short sides to the north and south, the long sides to the west and east.

I agree and have the same question as Katja: why?

I am not stuck on that, it can also be done differently, but the original ideas were.
1. Greater distance to the existing building
1.1 Terrace on the west side
1.2 lower temperature exposure because our current balcony on the south side is much too hot to stay there during the day
1.3 stays warm longer in the evening because the sun shines on the terrace a little longer
2. The remaining lawn area is rather square and therefore more usable than a long narrow strip
3. Since one is usually home in the evenings, there is more sun in the rooms because more surface faces west

We have also commissioned the local engineering firm with the surveying of the property, maybe I will not only get the elevation data but also the property dimensions

but they probably won't come until March.

My architect did not provide an answer to this question, although I asked 2-3 times, he always skipped the answer.

Then he did not complete service phase 1, otherwise he could answer that off the cuff or at least immediately from the file.

We’re just reluctant because we would be throwing the money already invested down the drain. We will only continue working together until LS4, and I hope that with your help I can somehow still get a good design for the floor plan.
We have also received the first draft from him.
For the ground floor, he almost adopted our design. For the upper floor, he used an old project as a basis.

2. What does the architect do professionally,
3. why are you showing his plans traced instead of the original, and
1. have I really written too few posts about (search term: Gerddieter) why you should avoid artists for service phases 1-4?

Cooking no kitchen island, too expensive

You want to build 200sqm and then it fails because of the money for a kitchen island?