Floor plan - plot for a single-family house, slight slope approx. 175m²

As I understood the OP, the basement should not become a full storey, but should lie approximately 1 to 1.5 meters underground at the front (north), so that normal windows for an office and guest room are still possible there. Two full storeys through the ground floor and upper floor. I would also support that, because otherwise it will (again) be a tower. For a house 8 meters wide, it is not really nice if the house is visibly taller than it is wide.

Yes, it already works for me. That would work with a KS of 50 cm With the desired KS of 1.8m, in my opinion, it only works if the ridge direction is changed.

So unfortunately not, because I was not talking about the household height aspect. Rather, I meant that with a change of the gable width, the validity of the statics of the base model for the variation dies immediately – especially (but not only) for the roof structure.

Here is the comparison. The garden in the south would be important to me, level with the property to some extent. For that, the house just sticks out 50cm more from the ground.

Here is the comparison. For me, the garden in the south would be important up to the property being reasonably level. In return, the house just sticks out 50cm more from the ground.

Please be so kind and show the house with its width from the street view, if the basement were level with the street.

Mmmh, with your idea of roofing the entrance door along with the carport, I still don't see a solution. The heights are playing tricks on you here. Theoretically, it looks roughly like this so far (knee wall 1.80m):






If you want to have windows facing the street and integrate the terrace into the terrain at the back, you shouldn’t underestimate the stairs to the entrance platform. In the sketched example, it has roughly a height of 1.70m.
I’m out of ideas for the evening to mitigate the high-rise character towards the street. Maybe Yvonne has a tip?

Good evening and many thanks for all the replies so far! It's really great how much thought you are putting into this with us – and it's interesting that you get stuck at the same points ;-) Carport/house front/basement are definitely still our biggest question marks...

I’ll try to summarize a bit and answer some follow-up questions:

Topic parking space/carport/house entrance:
Unfortunately, I have no idea how and where to find our community’s parking space regulations. Since someone always finds a catch, a "captured" parking space is probably not allowed in doubt. By phone, I was only told that we have to create 1.5 parking spaces per residential unit (so 2 in our case). Originally, we had considered simply designating/paving a flat spot in front of the basement windows on the North street as a parking space or something similar?! Because of the curve, we have to place the house quite far back from the street anyway to comply with the building boundary. A double carport in front would of course also be an idea, but then you have more height difference to overcome to the main entrance again? Everything somehow depends on the question of how high the basement protrudes from the ground, how high the basement windows then are, whether one wants to overcome a height difference with a driveway to the carport or stairs or what… We hadn’t really considered the main entrance on the north side so far, because the basement is supposed to partially protrude there or there would be light wells? Do you understand what I mean??

Thanks for the cool visualizations and the assessment! Actually, as laymen we had thought that the house would be even deeper in the ground and that the north-facing basement windows would be illuminated by light wells or something similar. That way, the maximum allowable wall height of 6.5m should be easily manageable and the high-rise character might be somewhat mitigated? I just don’t know how those light wells/-shafts behave in terms of drainage and whether that’s even possible? And if the house is deeper in the ground, a driveway to the carport should lead up, which stands at the same level as the front door/ground floor? Can you imagine that? We actually didn't want stairs to the front door at all...

Topic budget:
The house with the grid extensions and the basement described above is supposed to cost about 520,000 turnkey according to calculations. Our total budget for house (+basement expansion?, +selection bonuses,+ incidental construction costs) is about 600,000. There is still something left for carport, terrace, etc.

Topic height profile:
did you actually call the community? You’re cool) Thanks! If I have questions, it usually takes *ahem* longer... Do you still need the location of the photo in the site plan? If so, I’ll attach it again. Both on the photo and on the plan you can see the old barn in the direction you are looking.. The cross marks the location. The photo is from last summer, before development.

Topic basement height/-equipment:
If I understand the construction description correctly, nothing is included in the basement so far. Heating, floors etc would thus be added to the previous price – at least for the intended work and guest rooms. Room height should hopefully be enough for the 2 rooms, I think – but a good point!

The basement must not actually protrude very far out of the ground to the north. On the one hand because of the maximum wall height of 6.5m, on the other because of the number of full stories that we, as correctly understood, want to realize on ground and upper floors.

Topic living-dining area
by additional depth do you mean a widening of the kitchen-dining corridor? That would certainly do it good, yes... and theoretically there should still be some space left in front of the stairs

Topic grid extensions
I can actually only repeat what is stated in the catalog. It says about this house model that it can be extended both on the eaves and gable sides by "one or more grids" of 62.5cm each. I had hoped the company knows what it’s doing, since they seem to do this more often? But not for every house in the catalog... How can we be sure that the roof won’t blow away?

Thanks a lot for your commitment and have a nice evening!