Guido1980
2019-03-06 14:35:46
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Your guest/parking situation is by no means the only argument for an entrance in the basement. But it certainly cannot be dismissed. For visitors unfamiliar with the area, it is probably hard to see where your entrance is. They often end up standing in front of your garage.
The outside stairs would be eliminated: no snow shoveling, no costs, a lot of space would be freed up on the living floor, in the basement you could place a practical large wardrobe (or even a small cloakroom), your front yard wouldn’t be as elongated, and the area to the right and left of the stairs should be nicely landscaped.
Why would a lot of space be freed up on the living floor if you put the main entrance door in the basement?
Which outside stairs do you mean that would be eliminated?
Baden-Württemberg about 50km from Stuttgart.
Certainly one of the expensive regions.
Nevertheless. Calculate roughly the often-cited 2000€/sqm here, but include the square meters in the basement as well. Because your basement is more a living basement than utility space.
245*2000= 490,000
Then you have decent equipment, maybe one or two extras but nothing special. Not considered here are dormers, garage, slope (earth removal, slope stabilization), garage attached to the house (thermal envelope), balconies, terraces (just the parapet and railings alone), sauna, whirlpool, 3rd (!) bathroom, smart home, garden pond and exterior facilities, photovoltaic system, etc.
With the 2000 you might get one or two of the following extras but everything else on top:
- large-format tiles
- controlled residential ventilation (almost mandatory in your case, look into the specifications)
- venetian blinds
- windows anthracite exterior or possibly wood or aluminum
- higher quality electrics (e.g. recessed spotlights)
- floor-level showers or other higher-end sanitary fittings
What about all the other stuff? Kitchen, furnishings? Should that be included in the budget?
I just can’t imagine someone puts a place like this up to standard. And thus the budget would be too tight.
For the floor plan, I’ll leave it to the experienced here, if you’re open to that there will surely be great proposals with a completely new concept (not meant ironically, really so!)
Sound insulation, your matter, I’m no pro either. But due to the street, the first row is recommended to place the terrace on the side turned away or to protect it with other structural means. You are in the second row but apparently higher and thus place the terrace kind of towards the open field, so the sound can travel freely...by the way the railway line also comes from the west.
So to the west, the railway line will come eventually, but that’s certainly still at least 500 - 600 meters away. As I said, there is already a land use plan for this area and certainly additional building areas (also soundproofing) will be developed here in the next years. And a free view, soundproofed and not on a display plate somehow doesn’t work.
The 600,000€ budget is for the house. Plus equipment and land.
He is right. However, I am shocked at the idea that the drawings shown are already from the architect. An ass is very important in everyday life, so you shouldn’t risk it recklessly. But regarding my assumption how this planning evolved, I am strongly tempted to conjure it with this. If this really is a freelance architect, then he must still have a very significant lack of practice.
If not for that, I would have recommended a relaunch and if the house was already a done deal, I would probably swap office and bedroom.
The tail might find it funny to wag the dog – but I think the other way round has proven itself. And isn’t this “reversal” a major motive to build your own four walls?
Compromises you can still rent.
I see it the same way, only here there is no ground floor and no basement. Therefore, the main entrance belongs in the valley side level and possibly a side entrance in the mountain side level. A hillside lot is not just a normal lot with descending level and half-excavated basement, but a category of its own. And of that category you have drawn the better lot here with a valley side street than those hillside builders who only have a mountain side street.
If some living room area is given up to an entrance area, the rest is still more than big enough for a New Year’s resolution going as far as the dumbbell bench.
Honestly, I would prefer constructive alternative proposals rather than statements that the architect doesn’t know his craft or that the planning is bad.
Some of your comments are informative, but I read "bad architect" so often in many of them...sometimes I have the feeling you find yourself amusing and write accordingly monotonously.
Show a very successful floor plan/or several. Maybe you could recommend some architects (via PM) or show your own house floor plan, just don’t tell me you rent....
As I said... would be glad if someone here would present alternative improvements instead of just criticizing.
No, why is that? No one claims the terrace should be somewhere else. Only the garage.
Where then? The floor area ratio is almost exhausted. That’s why the garage is already pushed under the house and is simultaneously used as a terrace. Where do you think the garage should go?