Floor plan critique - Single-family house on a hill

Your outdoor area is somehow slapped together, from what I can see there are another 60k+ buried here. Simply putting a light well in front of every window is not really sensible, either it works or you leave it since it is a basement.

We also noticed the basic tone that the house shape has become more classic in the first iteration.

No, it is precisely not classic. When simple basic forms are composed without a sense of proportion, unfortunately something like the ugly typical builder’s design seen here emerges instead of the expected simplicity.

But at first we focused on the development of the interior floor plan and less on the exterior appearance.

In principle, it is possible to "beautify" a spatial arrangement as a building form in a second step. However, here I have the impression that the architects skipped all lectures on aesthetics in architecture. Many young architects have "grown up" with CAD and have never practiced their sense of proportion by sketching. What results then bears the hallmark of Frankenstein’s set square.

Here I agree with 11ant 100%. Honestly, I have rarely seen a more ugly house design. It makes me shudder. Rooms work like this, but clever is something else.

So honestly: half a million could be spent better.

I strongly assume that the architect was already overwhelmed by your list of requirements. Honestly: he never and never read everything thoroughly and taken it to heart. And if he did read it completely, he had long forgotten the beginning by the time he got to the end.
It’s good to think things through properly! But then please summarize it briefly, concisely and clearly(!!!) for the architect.
So, in plain English: don’t provide the whole thought process, the result is enough!
I somehow feel sorry for the guy...
Which also doesn’t change the fact that he obviously has no sense of proportions and apparently good ideas do not belong in his repertoire either.
The plot is cool! On a hill!!! Hey, even I (as an amateur) already have tons of ideas on how I can use this location. With little effort, you can easily block views from outside and have a great view yourself. What a starting point!
Unfortunately, not even remotely used here...

So I can’t make any “improvement” suggestions here, because I basically find the house so ugly that I would immediately throw the design in the bin and look for a good (!!!) architect who incorporates the possibilities of such a plot into his design.

In principle, however, I agree with many things my predecessors said:
- I would always want the pantry separated and closed
- the hallway has too little space for 4 people
- even if the kids are probably now more in the living/dining/kitchen area, that will be over at the latest in puberty. Therefore, children’s rooms on the sunny side
- I like large bathrooms, but this one here compared to the kids' bathroom is a bit cheeky...
- Personally, I am a fan of an open living concept, but I can accept if someone wants it differently. Still, the passage between pantry/dining room and living room is too small for me. I would opt for a wider or even a double door or a large sliding door. And I bet my head that, no matter which door, it will mostly stay open. But with a bigger door, at least you have the option to connect both areas

To be honest, I've rarely seen a more ugly house design.

To try to describe the origin of the ugliness: the cuboid with a moderately pitched gable roof would in itself be a simple basic shape, but it clashes severely with the slopes for the carport and the light well. Added to that are shifted and confusingly divided window arrangements. And just like that, the result is spoiled, even though all the ingredients were actually fresh. A CAD program doesn’t recognize that; the architect originally had to learn it by hand.

Rooms work like that, but clever is something else.

Unfortunately, rooms only work like that until you want to shift something in their dimensions. Where there are clear wall lines now, it then grinds at every corner.

I bow to these very honest, but so true words! Somehow these three colleagues from the ArchiOffice were asleep.

Again, thanks to everyone for the feedback - from completely new ideas to the individual room configurations. Some of the points I find objectively understandable, such as the suggestions regarding the hallway / wardrobe or the pantry. Others are too subjective for me and vary depending on the personal family model, such as the location of the children’s rooms.
However, I find the approach of deviating from the usual floor layout and placing the parents on the ground floor interesting.

I am now trying to distinguish between the external appearance of the house and the room layouts of the floor plan based on the feedback. We are not super happy...

For us, new would mean booking the previous services and invested time as sunk costs and doing a reset with a new planner. Alternatively, we can start over again with one of the original initial drafts.

Anyway, we are going now in medias res.
So, thanks again for the contributions.