Procedure:
Find out what you want
Prioritize
Present the architect with a list
Have the architect design specifically for your plot
The good lady has studied this, you pay her for it. Just let her show what she can do.
Yes, we have admitted our mistake of using the prefabricated floor plan. We thought she would only have to optimize it then. Luckily, thanks to you, we realized it in time ;).
Now we let the architect freely orient and design the house.
This time we only gave her the following points:
- Spacious, open kitchen, dining, and living room (cozy)
- Space for two parking spaces, but these are not arranged one behind the other
- Hallway and entrance area not too narrow
(aside from the room program, which remains unchanged).
We also told her to first roughly sketch the orientation as she finds optimal. We are curious what will come out of it...
If you liked the floor plan so much: maybe you can find out which aspects exactly appealed to you. Surely not the too narrow rooms, but maybe the arrangement of kitchen, dining, and living room in a corner. Just as an example.
What we liked so much about the floor plan is relatively easy to answer. We thought it had everything we wanted ;)
Especially stairway, open kitchen and dining room, guest room, guest WC with shower, and upstairs enough space for a work corner, and as a bonus, a great opportunity for a seating window in the south upstairs.
But we totally understand the concerns expressed here. We simply misjudged the narrow shape. Our dining room is now only 3.30 meters wide, and there is even a piano in it. But we have probably totally underestimated the length.
I have here a point for a north garden, which does not exclude a small south terrace additionally or larger windows in the south to bring sun into the house.
Photographed on Sunday at 2:32 p.m., north side (house is in the sun itself, in the evening at half-past seven the courtyard is sunny up to the east).
And then for example like this? South/West and north windows to garden and sunny courtyard
That doesn’t look bad either... The building shape would be similar to the current floor plan, right? Of course without the indentations and maybe a bit more square? In the end, we would swap the garden area in the north for a sunny courtyard in the south. Am I seeing that correctly?
The "maximum height limits" were not filled in. What does the development plan say about this?
Sorry, I forgot.
The following height specifications are in the development plan for two-story buildings:
Ground floor upper edge 0.6 meters
Eaves height 6.4 meters
Ridge height 11.5 meters
If I enter the distances on your plot, I get a building envelope of about 14.4 x 14.45 m. Can that be right?
That puzzled us a bit after the new survey as well.
According to the development plan, the building envelope is exactly 14 x 14 meters and the distances to the neighbors west/east are 2.5 meters and south/north 5 meters respectively. To be honest, we don’t yet know if the approx. 40 cm more, which the survey yielded, may be added to the building envelope or must be added to the distance from the neighbors.
Here is an attempt with the south terrace:
We honestly find this approach quite exciting. Unfortunately, the small labels are very hard to read. The part between carport and house would be the storage room with 3 x 6 meters, right? However, the terrace area where you drew plants would probably have to be fenced. Otherwise, you would look directly onto the driveway from the terrace. I’m not sure if that is nice. But in principle, we would then have a relatively spacious terrace in the south and shaded spots in the north if the sun is too strong. How large is the terrace planned on your picture?
What do you think of the following arrangement:
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This should be the largest possible contiguous garden area. However, we have absolutely no idea how big or long the shadow of the house to the north will really be. Since we are building two stories, the house is relatively high. Is it really only about 4 meters then? From the west, however, there would still be sun in the evening—even if the neighboring plot is built on.
The question is whether with such an arrangement there would actually be enough sun for us... With the kids, we prefer them to play in the shade anyway ;).
Potentially, with this arrangement, we would also have morning sun from the east for breakfast.
I have attached the sun path.
At least light could come into the house from the south. Perhaps a small sunny courtyard could even be realized.
Parking space 1 we would probably realize as a carport with storage room and parking space 2 as a garage with storage room.
What do you think about this?