Floor plan design for a single-family house 230-235 m² on two full floors

Which house type with which roof shape and pitch would be ideal for something over 200 m² of living space? A rather elongated building was recommended, which, as mentioned, would also be completely fine. If the roof is missing, what would then be appealing?

If the goal when designing a house is to create a status symbol for the "salary class 230 sqm," the appeal of the result will be roughly at the level of a Cayenne I or a current Range Rover.

If you are really open and it doesn't depend on a few days, a site plan would be quite good

Do you already know this thread?

If the goal when designing a house is to create a status symbol for the "salary class 230 sqm," the appeal of the result will be roughly on the level of a Cayenne I or current Range Rover.

The goal is to make the best possible use of the available money, especially on rooms, i.e., slightly larger children's rooms or guest and study rooms as two separate rooms. Since everything is a compromise, the usefulness inside has a higher priority for us than the appearance outside. If we can implement one more room for that, we forgo one or the other flourish outside and have thus ended up at 12x12 meters. Since other plots, houses, and ancillary structures in the development area invest mid six-figure sums more than we do, searching for a status symbol would be quite pointless.

The open space will be a structural highlight, approximately 6.5x11.2m free-span probably only works with very massive beams, corresponding support or over girders, or then prestressed concrete really thick. But those are thousands alone that such beams cost across, regardless of the rest of the ceiling, which also becomes thicker.

That is just the icing on the cake on the wildly predominant non-alignment of the walls.

I am also starting to wonder if the post might be trolling. So many strange priorities and considerations from a CEO? So little sense of numbers? Whatever.

Your suggestion to toss the draft and hire an external architect has been received. That is completely fine, this is our first time doing this, it is only a draft and not yet in the shell construction stage.

However, I can't make sense of the "strange" considerations and "so little" sense of numbers. What is meant by that?

where there were also quite nice variants with the Cayenne, but not the "normal one without S and everything."

I found the open space the most striking example where the structural engineer can really let loose. I follow an Instagram account called Stahlbetonhaus, where the entire building is not brick-built, because the city villa has to be correspondingly large. However, on the south side depicted here, there is significantly more glass, balanced by 2 steel columns in the middle of the open space.

The thread was not known until now; I have a clearly worse memory than others here... so I use google :rolleyes:. However, while skimming, I couldn’t necessarily find anything convincing about whether the Anstattvilla is more or less fixed already. But yes, one could really plan something "awesome" there. I haven’t really found anything on the budget yet either, but I hope not "235sqm at 2k€" given everything else that is supposed to happen around it.