Floor plan design for a new city villa with a basement

Hello everyone,

we are currently in the new construction planning phase and are currently favoring the following floor plans:
I look forward to opinions and suggestions

Development plan/restrictions: no relevant restrictions for our project
Plot size 638 sqm

City villa with hipped roof: 2 full floors and basement, terrace side with bay window
Number of people: 2 plus in the future 1 - 2
Office in the basement: home office + occasional client meetings
Overnight guests per year: approx. 5 - 10
open architecture
modern construction
open kitchen
Fireplace: built-in stove, considering using a water-based fireplace

Garage: double garage with hipped roof style directly at the house
Entrance side = street side, entrance with canopy in hipped roof style
Solid construction without ventilation system

Who designed it:
- planner from a construction company with our wishes

What do you particularly like? large living/dining room and large bedrooms
What do you not like? the small office (/storage room) on the ground floor without a window,
favored heating technology: air-to-water heat pump + underfloor heating + fireplace,
also considering rather using a gas heating system.

Additionally, we are somewhat unsure whether to use 36.5 cm bricks with (U-value 0.23) or 36.5 cm bricks with integrated insulation (U-value 0.18) – is the additional cost worth it?

Is it worth installing a water-based fireplace?

What do you use the large basement room for.

To the office
I have my doubts whether it will be bright and friendly despite the light well.
Customer visits have to go through the entire upstairs hallway and use the upstairs bathroom.

I would find it better solved like in the Rensch-Haus Orando.

Regarding the ground floor layout
Stairs directly next to the front door. It feels like a settlement house and not like modern spacious living.

The office is a storage room - there is enough storage space downstairs in the basement. Same with the pantry. You walk
Front door
Living room
Kitchen
Pantry

Just as far as to the basement

A wardrobe is missing

The kitchen is more practical by the terrace

Upstairs the bathroom is interesting

Dressing room/bedroom better accessed through the dressing room. That way you don’t disturb your partner.

I agree with haydee. Old-fashioned and impractical floor plan. An office without a window is total rubbish and clearly a planning error. In any first prefab house catalog I can find you something better.

And why is the garage on the west and not on the east? You gain a lot of window space on the beautiful west side if you switch it. With the house size, more is possible. The office on the ground floor is not even a room to stay in... did I read correctly that the planner approved your design? I find the bathroom really clever!

Basement, garage, two offices, bay window as a worthless additional cost factor: it seems to me that wishes were not prioritized before incorporation. As neat as the drawings look, on the other hand, the concept behind them is lacking. No, for me a slanted washbasin doesn't make up for that.

Why should construction be carried out without ventilation?