Floor plan design for a long, narrow rear building

Development plan/Restrictions
Size of the plot: approx. 250 sqm
Slope: no
Floor area ratio: 0.3 (already exceeded but approved)
Floor space index 0.7
Building window, building line, and boundary defined by existing structures
Edge development: yes
Number of parking spaces: 1-2
Number of storeys: 2
Roof shape: flat roof possible
Style direction: defined by existing structures
Orientation: north/south
Maximum heights/limits: unknown
Further specifications

Requirements of the builders
Style direction, roof shape, building type
Basement, storeys: modern, flat roof, single-family house, no, 2
Number of persons, age 6, 35, 35, 1, 4, 5, 11
Space requirements on ground floor, upper floor yes
Office: family use or home office?
Overnight guests per year not necessarily required
Open or closed architecture
Conservative or modern construction method
Open kitchen, kitchen island yes
Number of dining seats 6-8
Fireplace yes
Music/stereo wall no
Balcony, roof terrace yes roof terrace 100 sqm
Garage, carport no
Utility garden, greenhouse possibly on roof terrace
Further wishes/special features/daily routine, gladly also reasons why this or that should or should not be

House design
Who is the planner:
- Planner from a construction company no
- Architect yes
- Do-it-yourself yes
What do you particularly like? Why?
What do you not like? Why?
Price estimate according to architect/planner: unknown
Personal price limit for the house, incl. equipment: €500k
Preferred heating technology: fiber optic electric heating in clay panels plus basic stove.

If you have to do without, which details/expansions
- can you do without: high tech, garden
- can you not do without:

Why has the design turned out as it is now? For example
Standard design from the planner?
Corresponding/which wishes were implemented by the architect?
A mixture of many examples from various magazines...
What makes it particularly good or bad in your eyes?

Just some constructive ideas and improvements.
Please understand that we have to make compromises here and that we do things that do not conform to dogma.

The plans should generally be understood rather as a study.

There is one children's room missing.
2 staircases - you don't have that much space.

Furnish all rooms to scale and think about your daily routine. Everyone bathes or showers in the master bathroom, with only one toilet for that.

The table in the dining area is too small.
The living room downstairs is bursting at the seams, while upstairs there are again communal rooms.
I understand that large rooms are not possible, but here you have micro rooms combined with wasted space.

The plans are to be understood more as a study.

Since it was also possible as images instead of PDF, and you could have continued the thread there. As it says in Life of Brian: everyone just one cross!

I have already ignored the construction project or the extension in the other thread because far too many questions remain unanswered.

To create more living space, I want to extend this half measuring 9.75m x 6m (room height 2.9m),
dismantle the gable roof and install a continuous rooftop terrace with a horizontal roof exit/roof light.

It may be clear to you as the buyer, but this left and next door, half extension and a rooftop terrace, and then this drawing (where has the gable roof gone, wasn’t it just about one half?)

Now I have to download foreign data, and so that this doesn’t happen to others as well, here at least are screenshots

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However, wasn’t there talk of a backyard and adjoining neighboring building, not here, right?

And for everyone else: this concerns a renovation/refurbishment of an existing house, not a new build of a long, narrow backyard house.
There is already something, and it is to be rebuilt.

Please, where is the site plan that might shed some light? Is there actually a plot of land besides under the house, and if so, where?

And if this here is the house

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and the neighboring development is to the east, then is the entrance in the south?

Besides the site plan with plot and neighboring identification as well as driveway and so on, a few photos would be helpful.

Now to the floor plan: Where is the entrance? On the right side of the plan? Where do the shoes and jackets of 6 residents go? Why does one have to go through the pantry to get to the stairs? Why are the stairs counter-directional, or where does the staircase on the first floor on the right side of the plan lead to? What is Room 3 supposed to be and for what purpose? What is the rooftop terrace supposed to be good for? It is not suitable for playing ball or for barbecues.

Now to the floor plan:
Where is the entrance? On the right side of the plan? Where do the shoes and jackets of 6 residents go?
Why do you have to go through the pantry to get to the stairs?
Why are the stairs counter-rotating, or where does the staircase on the right side of the first floor lead to?
What is Room 3 supposed to be and for what purpose?
What is the roof terrace supposed to be good for? It’s not suitable for playing ball or for barbecue evenings.

The entrance is on the narrow south side; I had considered relocating the entrance but so far see no advantage. The shoes and jackets go under the stairs, and built-in cabinets around the table would also offer space. The table would not be round either. The stairs and a bathroom underneath exist as they are. For the stairs, I would prefer a more space-saving solution and am open to suggestions here. The staircase from Room 3 leads via a skylight onto the terrace, which I am planning to use, among other things, for barbecue evenings, a whirlpool, and a hammock. For the children, there is an adjoining garden plot that they are allowed to use for playing. The property itself has no garden; it is fully paved and consists of the house, driveway, and parking space. The staircase on the first floor runs above the kitchen and, of course, does not continue further up. Room 3 is intended as a double-occupied children's room for the younger ones, with small "cell-like" rooms just for sleeping, studying, or privacy. The children would then have a very nice room above the kitchen. The laundry room could also become a shower and be moved downwards. This should only be about the floor plan and possible optimizations I could make. I am consciously foregoing a technical room since there is electric underfloor heating with fiberglass reinforcement and a ground oven. Additionally, possibly split air conditioning units.