Floor plan of a semi-detached house with northeast orientation on a slope

Hello everyone,

we have the opportunity to build the right half of a semi-detached house. The plot (212 m2) is located on a slope and has already been supported. Earthworks are definitely necessary. Has anyone of you had experience with a similar plot? I am expecting significant additional costs due to the earthworks.

The second topic that concerns me is that the right half of the house has a northeast orientation. The living and sleeping rooms would be on the southeast side. I don't see a problem there. However, the garden would be behind the house or above the garage. So northeast orientation. That means sun at breakfast, but otherwise probably dark and cold all day long. In midsummer, of course, not the worst. What is your opinion on this?

The plan in the attachment is not from us but was designed for someone else.

I look forward to your opinions and the exchange.

but otherwise probably dark and cold all day long.

You have to free yourself from that. There is of course light in the north as well. It is not necessarily much colder there either. In winter, you don't sit outside anyway. The sunny days in winter can be brightened up with trips, at least that's how we do it in our circle of acquaintances. I can say little about the slope itself. It looks very, very extreme. What is above the garage? Is there basically a terrace-like hole indicated?

Honestly, that's not a slope, that's a sheer rock face. 8m difference over 15m – you really have to want that. Because of the small size, the whole thing no longer feels like a house with a garden. This terrace on the garage and the hillside concrete wall that even extends beyond the first floor are quite unusual. Besides the cost issue, I would mainly ask myself whether this property can become the dream house. The north-south orientation certainly wouldn't be my problem. But well, luckily tastes differ.

we have the opportunity

"Opportunity" is generally interpreted as a positive word and therefore, in my view, has no place in a situation that can lead to unhappiness. Here, a semi-detached house is to be placed almost more under than next to a neighboring plot, looming over it like a sword of Damocles. Your predecessor interested in buying, for whom one half of this semi-detached house was planned, woke up from this madness just in time, and you should follow his example. Maybe you have been searching so long in vain that such views from the back onto a dam wall in a delirium already seem desirable to you. But rather believe the Bremen Town Musicians: "we can find something better than death anywhere"!

Say something about the budget.

Where is this supposed to be built so that the additional costs pay off? Several hundred thousand have already been spent on the excavation support here. Show us some pictures of the existing condition. Has the SW neighbor already started?

Are the remaining floor plans also available?

Has the SW neighbor already started?

Well, hopefully not yet!