Floor plan of a single-family house (approx. 170 sqm) with garage - hillside location

Thank you. Then we will probably have to do it that way as well. I thought you had found a source. We want 300x120

Our open space cooking, eating, living. I already find it bright and airy. Especially now when the sliding door is open.

True. Do you have a balcony hanging somewhere outside?

A site plan with contour lines or elevation points would be helpful. And information about where each photo is looking.

I have put something together in the attachment (site plan with elevations are in the original post).

On page 2 you can see the current height, which is the future height of the garage terrace. From there you can go directly onto the meadow. Down below, I would first walk into the garden over the paving.

Google the house Energiesparer am Hang.

That’s of course great. They have everything free in front of the house. At our level of the future ground floor, there are only my dear neighbors.

It just doesn’t work without neighbors here. Because of the slope, it’s not like flat settlements where you can see from one end to the other. There will be a terrace behind the mountain, built into the slope, accessible from the upper floor. There are no balconies. Living within the town, so the view is moderate.

(Site plan with elevations are in the original post).

Oh pardon, I had overlooked that. In my opinion, the elevations do not clearly support the otherwise quite appealing split-level construction method for me. It is usually nearly exactly one floor difference, sometimes slightly more. That could indeed be interesting, as instead of a classic half-floor offset split-level, one would rather work with "whole" levels, which have a shift of two or three steps. And above that, a shed roof that follows this play of heights in a straight line.

OT: What exactly is the difference between a split-level and an offset of 2-3 steps? Just that it’s not 50/50?

: A "classic" split level places a straight two-flight staircase at the center, whose landings flow into the half floors. The height offset does not have to divide the floor height exactly in half, but uneven ratios other than 60/40 are unusual. The pinnacle of this concept is terrain differences in the range of 1.2 to 1.5 m, or one and a half or two and a half stories, but here it is almost exactly one.

What I mean here is that the staircase (of whatever shape) overcomes a whole floor, and within the level adjustments are made to align properly at the bottom at the entrance and at the top at the terrace.