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

I don't fully understand this rule about the wall height yet. Does that include the gable, or how is it defined? If you completely sink the basement to bring the front door down, what is the terrace supposed to look like then? Do you want to dig it out? I would have concerns about water there.

@ypg Thanks for the cool visualizations and the assessment

The credit goes to … she was the diligent one just as was diligent. I am still pondering whether the carport even has a good position there. After all, there are difficulties with the heights. I’ll write a bit unsorted: You have options: Driveway from North OR West. Entrance from East OR North OR West. Entrance in the higher basement OR ground floor … all detached from the floor plan. Light wells: In my opinion, there are regulations that these must also comply with the setback distances to the property boundaries. But it can also be that, like with bay windows, if they are subordinate in size, they may exceed 3 meters. Because of the slope, I would not see light wells or regular windows in the southern part of the plot, but rather in the northern third. Here is a variant with a deep basement and entrance door on the ground floor without stairs. [ATTACH alt="D7A3B21F-3973-45FD-98CF-110FF55BA1C1.jpeg"]78279[/ATTACH] A shallow courtyard, on the west a semi-circular light well in the extension with fieldstones, on the east a wall that starts the slope and the neighbor’s terrain. A light well could also be created here. BUT: Your terrace will then be more or less on the upper floor. And your light wells very deep. So what to do now? With lateral thinking, this would happen: entrance door in the basement on the north level, terrace on the south on the ground floor … And worked well in that regard, because if you dig the basement, you also dig the ground floor halfway. That is completely off the mark for a slope. Build it yourself with cardboard or Lego bricks. The way you imagine it is the most complicated method for the property with the most earthworks. When you have a slope, a basement makes sense, precisely because you can expose about 50% of it (an average of 1.4 meters) without it becoming a full storey. I also mention split level again. Didn’t you also have dogs? Then an entrance on the level basement is exactly right: guest WC and cloakroom in the basement (lower ground floor), the ground floor can do without a WC … Or: put your bedroom with a small shower bath in the lower ground floor instead of the guest room, and the children’s floor with guest room on the upper floor. Positioning the garage directly in front of the house reduces the visual height of the house.

Topic grid extensions @11ant I can actually only repeat what is stated in the catalog. It says for this house model that it can be extended on both the eaves and gable sides by "one or more grids" of 62.5 cm each. I had hoped that the company knows what it is doing because they seem to do this more often? However, not for every house in the catalog... How can we be sure that the roof won't fly away?

The house is supposed to be 125 cm "wider" (two full grid steps), but longer by 75 cm (not exactly fitting into these grid steps), which confuses me a bit. The company knows what it is doing. They constantly build individually planned houses as well. Why should the roof fly away???

I do not quite understand this rule for the wall height yet. Is that including the gable or how is that defined?

Wall height means eaves height, and the other limitation comes from avoiding a full additional story for the basement so that it does not become a third full story.

… and regarding the TH: you can realize a slightly steeper roof with only a little KS.

A flat courtyard, to the west a semi-circular light well in EL with fieldstones, to the east a wall that starts the slope and the neighbor's terrain. Here, too, a light well could then be created.

BUT: Your terrace will then be more or less on the upper floor. And your light wells very deep.

I can't really imagine that right now. Entrance on the ground floor on the north side means no terrace on the ground floor, right?

Light wells: in my opinion, there are regulations that these must also comply with the setback distances to the property boundaries.

Not necessarily now. In some federal states, however, they increase the wall height and thus also the setback distances. You should check that for your region.

I also mention the split level again.

Yes... *pondering*, good idea...

Definition of the wall height. 6.5 m on the eaves side in the middle of the house. The reference is the street. Therefore, my idea to achieve the desired high knee wall is to rotate the ridge line so that the rising street is the reference point for the wall height. The tower can be visually concealed by providing a protruding roof over the garage and the entrance.



You don’t need to worry about the drainage of the windows located in the basement (north). The terrain will be shaped so that there is definitely a slope towards the street.