Floor Plan Feedback Single-Family House - Weberhaus

Briefly explained (editing time is over)

size-optimized 2-story house fits better.

Ground floor and if absolutely desired the basement. Personally, I would rather build upwards than downwards. Mainly because of the windows and the light, which is only limitedly possible in the basement.

Bathrooms kitchen

…so bathrooms stacked and kitchen close to the terrace door.

Which house from Weberhaus is supposed to have inspired this?

I would actually be interested in your age. I can’t shake the feeling that you’re building a house just because you happen to have the money for it right now. You don’t really know what you need yet, so you’re planning a bit of everything but nothing really. - Possibly a children’s room and maybe a separate practice. But only in an emergency, because you’re not really willing to give the child the square meters yet, and the practice underground is already depressing if I just imagine the outside stairs leading into the darkness.

To stick to the facts: Is it possible to build like this? Yes, if it has to be! The floor area is tiny, although no one is forcing you to do that. This will probably lead to the basement being used a lot and often as living space – simply because there is no other room. Sliding doors, bathroom chaos, drainage issues – probably all still solvable. But why would anyone voluntarily want to live and work on 3 floors and underground?

Apart from that, I don’t see any function for that wall stub in the upper living room. It just wastes space and usable area – get rid of it. The site plan is missing to assess the usable areas and pathways.

Since the beginning of this year, we have been planning our prefabricated house with and are now about to sign the contract.

I can only say: thank God before that. Such horror floor plans arise when one – mind you, linked with AND! – 1. starts in third gear, i.e. skips the preliminary draft development and immediately begins with a design (which then, however, goes through thirty-eight and a half iterations); 2. does the planning already with the first dance partner, instead of first approaching the construction company with a planning. The plan representation is repeatedly inconsistent: the ground floor shows the staircase as in a slab-on-ground house, although there is supposed to be a basement. Furthermore, there is a mysterious 40x30 post roughly in the middle of the eave-side exterior wall on the ground floor without any recognizable connection to anything. Incidentally, a house with 80 sqm floor area with a rectangular upper floor will always look somewhat tower-like or like hardcore "social villa construction." Unfortunately, the shown plans do not reveal why the plot would advocate for a basement.

. Furthermore, there is a mysterious 40x30 post about in the middle of the eaves-side exterior wall on the ground floor without any recognizable connection to anything.

Yes, take a look at the drainage situation for the upstairs bathroom, then you'll know what it's for... In the past, people used to recommend glass wastewater pipes on the ceiling...

Apart from that, I see no function for this wall stub at the top of the living room plan.

Furthermore, there is an ominous 40x30 post roughly in the middle of the eaves-side exterior wall on the ground floor without any recognizable connection to anything.

In addition, there is a lounge (dining area) under the bathroom, which does not necessarily benefit from the bathroom’s drainage. Due to the two window sides, there is hardly any possibility

Drainage situation for the bathroom upstairs,

In summary, it can be said that the drainage pipe here is the indicator of faulty planning. The small basics of planning were not observed, and the most important room in the house suffers. I also believe, just like Katja, that this approach to building the house is done without concrete, well-thought-out goals and wishes. This explains the missing site plan, which doesn’t seem important, as well as some missing input and some ideas that somehow don’t align (work in the basement, shower toilet in the basement, second door in the bathroom, washing machine in the bathroom). It would be appropriate, before the house construction or planning, to read extensively about why and how something is solved, what something is or isn’t for, and how to best implement something. The forum is full of discussions that can help you by reading. The answers here assume knowledge of numbers and the basics — thus many arguments and tips are often not understood by non-mathematicians.

yes, take a look at the drainage situation for the upstairs bathroom, then you'll know what it's for...

That's exactly where I looked and saw that the bend of the downpipe is nestled under the sliding door threshold.

In summary, one can say that the drainage pipe here is an indicator of faulty planning. The basics of planning were not followed, the most important room in the house suffers.

From this perspective, this design consists of more than 100% indicators of faulty (or as I rather think, radically wrong) planning.

It would be advisable, before building the house or the planning, to read a lot beforehand about why and how something is solved, what something is or is not for. How to implement something best. The forum is full of discussions that can help you by reading.

Unfortunately, the friends of botched planning love to show up only at the moment of supposedly finished planning and quite naturally have no interest at all in the mistakes of others (which could have been avoided in time) from which they could learn. Clever prospective builders first sample from this buffet and then look for their own planner (who then regularly is not employed by the construction company).