which appeals to us on the whole.
That is not clear to me, since you can at least see
What don’t you like? Why? Hallway / traffic area very large.
which means nothing other than that the entrance is in the wrong place: this makes the corridor long. That a) it is also folded like an accordion for insulation purposes and b) the rooms have messed-up proportions is related to the clumsy arrangement of the rooms combined with their forced fitting into a rectangular frame (including the terrace). Overall, this shows that the planner is a technical draftsman: architectural dyslexia at its finest, the floor plan has the appearance of a window profile: the interior walls divide it into compartments, as if for stiffening purposes. One might as well deliberately wet one’s diaper, considering how long one would wobble with a walker from the bed to the bathroom here. The planner clearly lacks any sense of space, which continues on the exterior: the orientation line for the layout’s alignment is the parallelism with the east boundary of the plot; the garage stands aside and serves as an eyesore for the terrace user, while the almost screaming cry of the plot for an L-shaped floor plan is ignored.
What is the point of the single-story design of the floor plan supposed to be, and how “ground-level” is the house really (zero slopes to the terrace, but three to the front door)?