Floor plan of a single-family house on a narrow plot

Honestly, I don’t really understand why we should move a children’s room downstairs. We already have a higher space requirement on the ground floor than on the upper floor, so what good does moving the children’s room downstairs do for me?

I was not talking about "moving" a children’s room at all. Rather, about identifying the wildcards when balancing the room program regarding the distribution across the floors, and about flexibility instead of rigidly linking all rooms of one type. This calculation task should be solved before starting to draw. A children’s room is just an example of a relatively "big item." The core issue is the approximate equality of the total floor areas (for two-story buildings). Once that "is set," you can work out the upper floor and derive the ground floor. Laypeople tend to push too early for the visual planning stage. In the past, architects then reined them in, nowadays they prefer to play along. "Bay windows" and the like are a symptom, not a solution—at least not as "Plan A."

I agree with that. If the red torn-down building is still standing like that. It should still be possible today as well.

I must have mixed up the colors a bit, it should say the yellow building.

So we have enough garden space towards the south, the meadow still belongs to the property. Rotating the house is not possible because the building plot is only about 16.6m wide at its narrowest point. We have to maintain the distances (3m to the neighbor, 3m to the middle of the field path). However, we also like the current rectangular shape/orientation of the house because it fits the narrow but long plot. As mentioned, there is still about 16x50m of garden towards the south.

My suggestion:



There is even 1 m of space left in width.

My suggestion:

The overall view nicely illustrates the disproportionate size of the "basement replacement room," into which the carport could easily be integrated (and with the main house directly connected, possibly even the connection room and perhaps also the utility room). I am always amazed at how some modern builders seemingly have money to burn.