11ant
2020-09-11 00:11:17
- #1
I am definitely attached to my floor plan, which is similar to Shiny's. I have constantly tried to redraw the floor plans of Zaba and Tolentino accordingly.
The alternatives to reworking what was a dead end of course won’t help. I would have considered the Villa Shiny suitable for my purposes until, quite rightly, the reference to the building envelope came up. That made it clear to me that stepping away from the square had to happen urgently because there was only a few decimeters of leeway left to touch the building envelope boundary — and it would have saddened me if from the living room you would have had a fence as a view practically at screen distance. So I called for a decision: either want to keep the south side as the prime side (then with the consequence of positioning the house with the ridge axis W-E on the plot and reducing the depth to move further away from the fence). Or else fully exploit the building envelope in the plot depth but then make the west side the prime side. For both, the image search in my memory is sufficient here to recognize that the models “Zaba12” and “Tolentino” would be suitable as inspiration. This applies only partially to Villa Shiny, where the house depth could be more easily reduced at the children's rooms than on the ground floor. The staircase works — as seen in all three models — as long as (and only as long as) you do not try to force a landing onto it — because then you have to extend it at the entry and/or exit such that steps spoil possible door positions or suffocate alternatives in the bud. But before I get another Shiny déjà vu here — which was already just a replay of my StanSch trauma — I hereby announce that I will drop out here before post #300.The house can certainly be reduced in size. Instead of a platform staircase, a U-shaped staircase also works. Then you can get into the rooms on the upper floor more easily.