Floor plan design townhouse with a gable roof

Hello, great forum,

now we are also starting to fulfill a small dream of our own home. I am very curious about your opinion and experience.
Currently, we live in 4 rooms, 70 sqm.
Planned are just under 200 sqm.
We need a room for each of our three children, the house should be functional.
It should look modern from the outside.
We would like two full stories with a small flat or hip roof. Unfortunately, this is not possible and all these restrictions probably only allow what has now been designed.
I would like the dormer in front and the front extension to be larger purely for aesthetic reasons, according to the architects this is not necessary.

Development plan/restrictions
In the attachment, it is the third house/plot from the top.
Size of the plot: 700 sqm
- the minimum distance to the street is 7.0 m
- the building depth is 12.0 m
- orientation MUST be according to the development plan with the eaves side facing the street
- the eaves and ridge height follow §34 Building Code i.e. as high as the neighbors are. We can then use the base (basement) for the floor heights of ground floor/attic
- but it will not be a 2-story building! I currently estimate the knee wall/dwarf wall at about 1.0 m!!! (for an exact statement the eaves and ridge heights of the neighbors would have to be measured)
- it does NOT have to be a plaster facade, it can also be fully clad
- roof pitch may be between 45 - 52 degrees
- no basement possible due to peat soil and groundwater problems.

Requirements of the builders
Style, roof shape, building type: gable roof
Basement, floors: 1 floor + attic
Number of people, ages: 5 people between 2 - 35
Room requirements on ground floor, upper floor
Office: family use or home office? home office
Guest sleepers per year: 3
open or closed architecture: open if possible
conservative or modern construction: modern
open kitchen, cooking island: closed kitchen
number of dining seats: 8 and there should be a breakfast nook in the kitchen
fireplace: would be nice

House design
Who is the planning from: our idea and implemented by the architect
What do you particularly like? Why?
Width of the hallway downstairs and the entrance area, view to the living room from the entrance.
Passage from the kitchen to the utility room with pantry

What do you not like? Why?
Everything seems very tight or maybe it is deceptive.

Price estimate according to architect/planner:
450k

Personal price limit for the house, including equipment: 550k
favored heating technology: heat pump or gas heating

If you have to do without, which details/extensions
-can you do without: currently, we can only imagine not converting the attic at first

I don't want to be a party pooper, but the architect's price estimate is quite naive.
If you calculate with the typical €3000 per sqm, it would be €600,000.
Depending on what you mean by [Ausstattung], there will be some additional costs on top.
Of course, the ancillary building costs and the costs for the outdoor facilities will also be added.

Sure, you can also come out cheaper, but I would only calculate with that if you can easily spend more at the end. Otherwise, it might be worth considering planning the house a bit smaller.

Just a few things that catch my attention:

- Kitchen very far from the terrace.
- What is supposed to go into this very narrow technical room?
- Where do the house connections enter the house?
- The outward-opening door of the storage room into the carport will probably not be loved by the car's fender.
- The entrance platform in front of the front door will not be very deep, otherwise you cannot pass by with the car without damage.
- The crouched falling into bed on one side in the master bedroom I find interesting.

I don't want to be a party pooper, but the price estimate from the architect is really very naive. If you calculate with the typical 3000€ per sqm, you would be at 600,000€. Depending on what you mean by equipment, there is more on top. Of course, additional construction incidental costs and costs for the outdoor facilities also come into play.

Sure, you can also come out cheaper, but I would only calculate with that if you can also spend more at the end without any problems. Otherwise, it might be worth considering planning the house a bit smaller.

Yes, that's true. I forgot to mention above that we will award everything individually to trades. That way, we hope to keep construction costs between 2600€ and 2700€.

A few things that I notice:

- Kitchen is very far from the terrace.
- What is supposed to go into this very narrow utility room?
- Where do the house connections enter the house?
- The outward opening door of the storage room into the carport probably won’t be very popular with the car’s fender.
- The entrance platform in front of the front door will not be very deep, otherwise you won’t be able to pass with the car without damage.
- The hunched falling into bed on one side in the master bedroom I find interesting.

There will also be a terrace at the kitchen/dining area. It faces southwest.

The utility room is sufficient according to the architect. The building services are supposed to go there... hmm.

The house connections come from the street where the utility room is. We are considering whether to enlarge the office and move the technical equipment to the utility room and omit the cloakroom, because the utility room is currently not very well designed.

True, about the storage room.
According to the architect, we don’t need an entrance platform.
The distance from the neighboring property to the house wall/entrance is 3.40 meters wide. That should be enough, right, for a car to pass by?

Or do you have another idea here?

You’re right about the bedroom.
What would be a sensible solution there?

Also, it will definitely be very warm upstairs in the attic in summer, won’t it?

A note and your experience.

For the creation of the plans or phase 1-4, the architect wants nearly 15k. Is this justified?

Another architect had charged 6700€ for 1-4 but he was not on site.

That was too risky for us since we currently have a lot of exchange with the architect.