ypg
2020-03-19 15:54:45
- #1
The basically well-structured layout (left retreat, middle living, right function) is interrupted by the 3rd children's room. That somehow works, but it is not consistently well implemented.
I don’t basically see that as the problem: there are no children yet, and who knows what will happen with the 3rd children’s room anyway.
What doesn’t fit is the accessibility of the area, since it always leads through a living area or “living corridor” – even from the kitchen. The living area reminds me of an open waiting room or a lounge in the departure terminal. Open on all sides – that wouldn’t be for me.
That would bother me exactly as well.
In my mind the sleeping wing and the central common rooms are thought through, but the open plan room has not established itself here at all. It has become a hub of unrest.
Personally, I also find the orientation questionable: utility room with connections very difficult to reach, there is no south side at all. The house turns away from the best side of the property. The open plan room with its many windows will get no sun in winter. Neither will the kitchen.
in order to both be able to use the garden fully and to implement a bright living area.
I don’t see that at all: the living room here is pitch dark... and where would the garden even be here? Probably not in the west between the bay window and the property boundary.
I probably also wouldn’t build a bungalow if I follow the idea of a parents’ wing separated from the children’s wing (always something to consider with 3 children).
Bedrooms downstairs and children in the attic, I would implement that. Then there would also be room for an office/guest room.
If the building is like this, then do a room swap: put the kitchen in the bay window, central to the dining area, the current kitchen becomes the retreat.
The dining area gets light and sun from the south through a shifted shed roof...
However, I rather see a completely new building concept oriented to the south. And if it is to be a bungalow, then rather an approximately isosceles L-shape, which has twice as many south sides as a normal house, thus opening to the southwest, and in the rear wing then the children’s rooms/children’s wing.