Floor plan for a single-family house desired (staggered shed roof)

Hello everyone,

I am pleased to present my floor plan here. Any kind of constructive criticism or suggestions for improvement are welcome. In advance: We have not yet really dealt with the position of the windows.

Background: On the plot (parcel 4), the construction method shown in the photo is prescribed. That means the north side is single-story, the south side is two-story. The boundary between one- and two-story is visible from the site plan, but to cut a long story short: The single-story part (north side) must be at least 4.75 m long, only after that can it become two-story. This fact also leads to the staircase being placed so dominantly in the middle of the house.

So now to the pictures:


prescribed construction method


site plan parcel 4


ground floor overall view


ground floor enlarged


upper floor

As said, we are open to ideas and suggestions.

Best regards
zovima

I can imagine that the structural engineering will be relatively expensive. After all, a considerable section of the external wall on the upper floor needs to be supported, and I don’t see any retaining wall or column for supports on the ground floor. The closet space won’t work very well at 140 cm wide.

Do you have a basement? Where is the technical room? Where are the storage areas for winter clothing and sports equipment?

I really don’t like the projection on the east side, and it somehow just looks like an attachment, right? Ah, I looked again: you currently don’t have a wardrobe space in your drawing, so you just make an additional room outside the building...

I do like staggered roofs, but the elevations should be included in the planning, as well as parking space, carport, and driveway.

I am now assuming the structural engineering is not feasible and therefore a fresh start.

Hello,

in principle, I share the opinion of ypg.

However, if it should be built like this or something similar, I would recommend swapping the bathroom with the guest room (?).

This way you would save considerable costs for an additional installation shaft with corresponding piping.

A guest room can also have a northeast orientation - if it is supposed to be a children's room, I would rather leave it as it is and accept the additional costs.

What is really interesting, however, is the question of where you want to accommodate storage space and technology.

Regards,

Dirk

3.75 meters are shorter than 6.00 meters, so easier to implement
I don't understand the naming emergency floor plan... you can combine the advantages of one with those of the other floor plan. For example, in the last floor plan (without even looking at the garage), you can mirror the entrance area, that is the square at the bottom right, along its own diagonal, so that the entrance is on the east. And then you can play with the walls again until a good floor plan emerges. Because even your emergency plan has the drawback that you have to walk through the hallway from the bedroom/bathroom and are seen through the windows in the hallway. By the way, I find the entrance area there too narrow. I would definitely put the guest/study room in the basement and put a small utility room on the ground floor

I would definitely also recommend that you consider a full basement. These half basements, in my opinion, bring more disadvantages than advantages.

3.75 meters is shorter than 6.00 meters, so easier to implement

That is only 4.15 m

... For example, in the last floor plan (without even looking at the garage), you can mirror the entrance area, that is the square at the bottom right, along its own diagonal so that the entrance ends up in the east. And then you can play around with the walls again until eventually a good floor plan emerges. Because even your contingency plan has the drawback that you walk from the bedroom/bathroom through the hallway and are seen through the hallway windows. By the way, I find the entrance area there too narrow.
I would definitely put the guest/work room in the basement and set a small utility room on the ground floor

Good idea, I will definitely try that out, although until now I have always failed at the upper floor. With this type of construction, there are only a few places on the ground floor where the stairs can be placed, otherwise the upper floor does not work well. We also still need to reconsider the path from the bedroom to the bathroom, but we could live with that if necessary.

Just a bit about the background of our building project: we actually bought this plot because of its good location (nice area, walking distance to work, kindergarten + school + grandma nearby). We would have preferred to build a normal shed roof house with two full floors. However, we are slowly learning the advantages of this construction method (large bedrooms and large children’s rooms) and almost don’t want to build any other way anymore.