Floor plan design for a new single-family house with double garage (city villa)

Please don’t let it look like “Kraut und Rüben,” even though the “non-symmetrists” are currently more numerous.

Not “mirror” symmetry does not automatically mean “Kraut und Rüben.” Orientations based on the golden ratio (about 1/3 to 2/3) are possible and often very helpful. Proportions following the golden ratio were already applied in antiquity in architecture and artworks and are perceived as particularly harmonious.

... Fortunately, our house can only be seen from the front and back in a frontal view; the neighboring houses stand quite close on the sides (7 and 9 meters respectively). Will your house be visible freely from all sides?

Now it might get a bit specific. You can only see our house to a limited extent (almost like with you), but I KNOW it, it is in my head.

... The proportioning according to the Golden Ratio was already applied in antiquity in buildings and works of art and is perceived as particularly harmonious.

Thank you, I will google that right away. I would still pay to attend a seminar at 11fant.

I might do a facade structuring tutorial next year, now that I'm out of the window industry

Did I miss something? Since when are you in design mode?

Actually, I love symmetry. But you live inside. Floor-to-ceiling window in the guest bathroom. Takes up floor space and offers unwanted views. Or the kitchen is 20 cm too wide, in the living room it's missing that. You put on a corset with symmetry that makes planning difficult. You don't have to design every window in a different format. Then ask yourself what you will still see of it in 5 years. Where will the climbing rose, awning, the house tree, etc. go?

Finally someone who shares my passion in this regard. [...] and my "symmetry thread" was therefore immediately closed again, could you open one?

A topic does not care who started the thread. But for self-help groups I hope their members soon have 100 posts together and can meet via private message.

Please don't let it look like "wild and woolly," even if the "non-symmetrists" are currently still the majority.

If what is produced by (often also colorblind) proportion illiterates and golden ratio dyslexics is arranged symmetrically, involuntary comedy is more likely to arise as an aesthetic than healing, so such a shot is more likely to backfire :-(

Maybe architects still have a few tricks up their sleeves. [...] Will your house be freely visible from all sides?

I may not have become an architect for entire houses after all, but here you go: the first trick would be to remember that there are no step sides: not the garden side, because for the owner it is the more frequent side of view; and not the "side sides," because that discredits the beauty of the front side if it immediately comes around the corner into view that the beauty was only for one side. The second trick is, in design mode, to step back the dimension lines one row and insert the outer walls of the other floor there in between, then you have the synapse ready. Best to take the approach of the interior walls along with it and also draw these dashed in the views. The zero trick I have mentioned several times, but so far not regarding the facade aspect: follow gravity and draw the upper floor first.

If I understand you correctly, the bigger the house, the easier the design of a symmetrical facade, if desired.

Formulated the other way around, it becomes clearer: the smaller the width to be distributed, the more tricky its balancing becomes. Symmetry at smaller absolute dimensions needs its own width budget; only at increasing dimensions does it dissolve.

Since when are you in design mode?

In which "mode" do you perceive me otherwise?

Where will the climbing rose, awning, house tree etc. go?

Joker. The climbing rose is to the symmetrizer what holy water is to the devil. To the symmetrizers I recommend as a cure to take a look when next summer slump some magazine shows how celebrity portraits would look with perfectly crooked faces: usually not only different but also less likeable – which by the way even applies to those examples where you see the "sweeter" side of villain actors doubled.

That would be great. I would participate and even pay something for it.

Tell me what that would be worth to you and in what form you would like to participate: do you think of a webinar or some form of coaching?