Floor plan, Bauhaus style with staggered floor

Regarding your ground floor: Does the utility room at the bottom left really need to have 3 doors? That all costs floor space and in my opinion, without a basement, you don’t have that much storage space. The space under the stairs should definitely be used, that was already mentioned somewhere here.

The hallway in the entrance area seems quite convoluted to me and wastes space. Also, in the Bauhaus style, I would expect a generous area, i.e. without a door between the living area and the hallway/stairs. The stairs are usually a highlight in Bauhaus style, you can gladly integrate them into the living area and omit the door to the stairs and hallway. Overall, I would shorten the hallway; you have a narrow corridor going upward (north) and to the right, which just wastes space.

The study is too small for my taste, but if you integrate the stairs into the living/dining area, you could push the wall between the office and living room slightly further north. You gain space if you eliminate the narrow part of the hallway.

I would completely redesign the upper floor; it looks pretty convoluted and has little to do with the straightforwardness of Bauhaus style. But the upper floor probably follows only after the ground floor is planned more precisely?

Admittedly, I don't know any architect in this world by name, nor what they stood for.

That somewhat excuses your following statement

Maybe the gentleman was famous because he dared to do what no one else did.

and raises the highly exciting question of who actually shaped your sense of what "Bauhaus" really is:

But the objects you mentioned rather reinforce my view that clinker bricks and Bauhaus do not go well together.

And now hold on tight, here come two bombshells:

Rocket stage number one ) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was not a rebel who did something different from what apparently "Bauhaus" is to everyone else. He was "Bauhaus," i.e., he taught there and even led it from 1930 onwards. And he continued to shape it in emigration.

Rocket stage number two ) The Bauhaus people were not all architects. Just google Kandinsky, Feininger, Moholy-Nagy, Itten, Schlemmer, and so on. Painters, stage designers, type designers, textile designers, furniture designers. And they had ladies too, who could do that even better.

The only thing that has stuck with the RTL consumer from all that is "flat roof white matte." Fack ju, Göhte

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The staircase is usually a gem in Bauhaus,

In the aforementioned sense: also at Hornbach

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A top floor (setback floor) set back from the exterior walls of the building is only considered a full floor if it has that height over more than two-thirds of the floor area of the floor below.

That's how I understand it too: the essential characteristic is "significantly smaller than the floor below," and setbacks do not have to be on all sides.

In the previous sense: also at Hornbach

And to complete the list, Le Corbusier and of course especially Walter Gropius should be mentioned here, who all also partly used clinker bricks.


You can also very nicely distinguish a "real" Bauhaus from a "shoebox with flat roof" if you engage with the ideas of this architectural style. And if you have not done that yet, which is really worthwhile and interesting, you will still be able to sense a different effect:

When you enter a real Bauhaus, it looks incredibly puristic and simple, but somehow everything is absolutely harmonious and coherent with each other. Then you might not yet be able to explain why, but this impression should definitely become clear to you.

A square building with a flat roof is far from that, despite anthracite-colored windows.

Regarding VG, Traumfaenger has already written everything, the same rules apply to us as well. The OG then has 2/3 of the area of the EG

Ok, so the OG is nicely shifted accordingly onto the EG. I understand

That's also how I understand it: the essential characteristic is "significantly smaller than the floor below," and setbacks do not have to be on all sides.

Yes, in NRW they do. In other federal states it's different, I know.

"A top floor (setback floor) set back from the exterior walls of the building"
In a detached house, all exterior walls are indeed exterior walls. I have already gone through the discussion with the building authority during our house construction. Only for the stairwell was it okay that there was no setback. That is also stated in the state building code.

Hello everyone,

I have sat down again with our architect. We are now planning a slightly more open design of the living area (keyword staircase). We have also revised the entrance area again. The staircase is moving a bit more towards the center, so that the upper floor will also be designed completely differently.

As soon as I receive the new plans, I will upload them.

Best regards, mihaco