Floor plan design experiences - criticism?

I like the house in the picture. Don't ruin it with shutters à la Bavaria.

two semi-detached houses with a breakthrough in the middle

That would also be a detached house and would no longer be possible for you if one of your neighbors had placed a semi-detached house on the boundary.

I associate symmetry in house construction with calm, appealing, classic, harmonious architecture; perhaps also "agreeable," which is not necessarily a compliment but appeals to me.

Since you praised Yvonne's house, there is still hope that you recognize a handsome house not only under the condition of symmetry as such.

I don't understand that.

Please don't torment yourself like that, it is the run-of-the-mill house of a stranger.

From my point of view, you are still full of unsuitable beliefs and the battle between 08/15 and 4711 is still too much ongoing. Accordingly, the distillate of wishes in floor plans is still too unripe to already serve as a visual basis on which one could give a qualified answer to the question of price. Without knowing whether the question is "why are there only little jugs outside," the answer "42" is of NO USE to you — not even if you are assured that fourteen times three is likewise forty-two, should you change your taste and find six times seven too square after all.

I hope I may get back here with the architectural plans/site development plan, because it is just that I trust you more.

More than whom? — if more than your contracting partner, then change him — because you must be able to trust him more bindingly than any virtual discussants.

I don't understand the thing about wastewater.

Greywater can be allowed to trickle, but blackwater should drop vertically — rather less attractive next to the dining table. Therefore, neither living nor dining rooms belong under the toilet bowl.

I do think that the elephant tends to exaggerate once again. It’s more about the ingrained aversion to townhouse cube symmetry developed over years, rather than well-founded criticism of the floor plan. I believe that with any other format, this sketch would have been rated by him as absolutely suitable and sufficient for initial architectural discussions.

But to grab the dog right by the ears: the best way to go to the architect is WITHOUT a sketch. List your wishes and dreams, what you’ve seen somewhere and found great, what you need in everyday life, and what absolutely must not be included. But don’t draw anything beforehand. Experience shows that with the first stroke, any creativity of the architect is instantly stifled at the root. Challenge him to bring in his ideas – if it turns out to be rubbish, you can always pull your sketch out of your pocket.

And to tease the electrician a bit more: yes, symmetry is allowed as a main wish in a townhouse too! :P

I have no aversion to coffee grinders, but to home providers who mock the dreams of (what is an inability and not a pity) dimensionally dyslexic would-be homeowners by selling them a cheaply cobbled-together square floor plan thing as a "villa." It particularly provokes elephantine wrath when the house is presented standing on a park-sized lawn and accompanied by a lottery winner car under the carport.

Everyone is entitled to every taste – as long as they don’t build within my line of sight, gladly even one whose highest perfection is a Bauhaus Tuscan villa with casement windows and a roof terrace on the double garage. But damn it makes a difference whether the builder proudly calls his home a castle himself, or whether it is mockingly labeled a villa by the brazen seller.

I believe that in any other format, this sketch would have been rated by him as absolutely suitable and sufficient for initial architectural discussions.

As a pictorial wish list for an architectural conversation, I have by no means questioned the suitability of the sketch, but simply, because of its lack of proximity to what is shaped during the course of a discussion, as a basis for a price response, in which nothing essential changes except the tile color. As a business basis for a preliminary contract, this sketch still seems decidedly immature to me, that’s all. It is by no means the case that only northern light bungalows would find mercy before my judgment.

But to get straight to the point: it's best to go to the architect WITHOUT a sketch.

There is a prototype house, so there is already a floor plan. The planner won't have much to do with it: since the desire for symmetrical floor-to-ceiling windows calls for it, the rooms will be slightly adjusted. One should just shorten the connections between the zones a bit; otherwise, you'll end up walking yourself tired. I also believe that a bit is overdone with an architect consultation or drawing.

I would build a bungalow. Why not? With 0.35 (if I remember correctly?), you get just under 150 sqm of living space, right?

Yes, symmetry is also allowed as a main wish for a townhouse!

P.S.: just now I completely forgot to address this aspect. Essentially, what I said above generally about the Anstattvilla applies here in substance: namely that it is not symmetry itself that is objectionable (because that is a matter of taste, which in a free country is allowed to be different – if necessary, even widely diverging from mine), but rather the weakness in reading dimensions and proportions that some builders use to deceive themselves, to fake the cheapest ersatz aesthetics where, apart from a balanced right-left optical weight, there is none at all. Exploiting design dyslexia for profit maximization or for obtaining a signature on a construction contract is unacceptable! – I much prefer an honestly unpretentious flair, a good handyman’s one-and-a-half-story house. The settlement house is exactly that – neither more nor less – simple-minded, and the Anstattvilla only becomes indecent when it sells its "knee wall up to the pointy hat" as a (faked) doctorate and pretends to be something nobler.