Floor plan for a semi-detached house on a hillside - optimization ideas?

In my circle of acquaintances, I asked for opinions on this and almost everyone said it would be strange as a guest to have to go directly down a staircase into the "basement".

I find it rather stranger as a tenant in a terraced house not to be able to reach my terrace/garden above the living area. Screw the guests. The focus on tenant/guest is wrong here.

You should be able to pass by a normal car.

Maybe Twiggy... ok, me too still ... but definitely not a mother with two small children by the hand or with a stroller...

The idea is that you don’t have to go through one of the (bed-/children’s rooms) to get to the garden.

I don’t see the point. So the person upstairs can use the garden downstairs. Ok... but outdoor seating and gardening are separated. I wouldn’t like that, I wouldn’t rent it. Instead, the children’s room terrace doors have to be secured again so that no child accidentally flies the coop.

My experience is also that a nice garden in a house or semi-detached house is also appreciated in the rent.

If I can use it unrestrictedly, yes. But I don’t see that here.

The problem with the planning here is that you want a fancy house from the outside, but inside it doesn’t offer what the outside promises.
If I rent a semi-detached house or terraced house as a tenant, I want to have a garden. Somehow the design and the garden part are also reflected in the rent price—I probably get more value for money in a condominium than here.
Also, you are planning for 4 people (family), but the house is not family-friendly. I see at most yuppie couples there, but then the entrance/carport situation speaks against that again. (Yuppie -> 2 cars, presentable entrance)

As a builder/landlord you should assess the role more economically—you can build your dream house with the façade design yourself. A semi-detached house for families has to work for the residents, not for the guests.

Hello ypg,

your argument about the usability of the garden convinced me. I think I’ll start thinking about a design with the living room in the basement with a terrace (by the way, those were my first thoughts). How would you solve the situation of "always carrying groceries up or down stairs"? Stairs as close to the entrance area as possible? Or maybe even an outside staircase with a second entrance to the kitchen in the basement? Or living/kitchen on the ground floor and an outside staircase to the garden?
The beautiful facade was actually not the basis. Many large windows came about because we have them on our house and love them (despite 28° in the rooms in summer). It’s also clear that this makes construction more expensive. That’s why a lot will certainly be reduced here for "Altersvorsorge."

Best regards,
Holger

How would you solve the situation of "always carrying groceries up a staircase"?

You always have to choose the lesser of two evils – I would incorporate a storage room or a large built-in closet in the entrance area that holds coats as well as the vacuum cleaner and possibly staple foods (so a small pantry). Three meters total would be acceptable.
In a house with stairs, you just have to live with making the occasional trip up the stairs.
For that reason, you could plan to do laundry on the sleeping level.

Or maybe even an outside staircase with a second entrance to the kitchen in the basement?

That would also make sense: some kind of ramp pathway from the yard towards the garden, side door with lock function from the outside.
I wouldn’t call it basement (KG), but lower ground floor (UG).

P.S.: The dig at the aircraft fuselages is of course true

That wasn’t one at all. Considering a townhouse relatively wide compared to the aircraft fuselage is absolutely understandable. But on land you design differently, according to other conditions. Here you unnecessarily planned an airplane on a plot. With a tower

But I really can hardly refrain from making a dig at the professional group of management consultants

No, if I don’t know it yet, then bring it on.

1. Cooking / living / eating in the basement floor I favored at first. I asked for opinions about that among acquaintances

A living room belongs to the garden, even if the street (and the front door) are on the first upper floor.

But it’s not nice, that’s true.

And therefore to be avoided in new buildings.

4. The hallway on the ground floor is > 1.3m. The front door would be > 1.1m. Is that too small?

The front door nominal size 110 is okay, but tuning yourself to motorhome dimensions through the hallway is unnecessary.

Mentally (and on paper with pencil) I am currently playing with staggered maisonette apartments, so one has more width below, the other above. Both have garden share.

That sounds suspiciously like the right direction. Landing permission granted.

Let's see if I find the time for a draft in Catia ...

Katja doesn't do it any better either you can also use Revit or AutoCAD in the free student version. Or from 3DS Paint by Numbers "Home.by.me". And best regards to the EFW.

Katja doesn't do it any better either

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