Thilo1979
2022-02-09 09:47:04
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We are planning a two-story detached house with an attached bungalow on a large plot with nevertheless tight building boundaries (the plot is long and trapezoidal, becoming wider towards the south, the building window is at the narrow end).
The architect has received the building application back from the district for revisions – because we have planned high ceilings on both floors, we reach a gutter height of 6.66m and must therefore maintain a boundary distance of 3.33m instead of the 3 meters.
The simplest way to achieve this would be to shift the entire building completely up to the building boundary to the south, practically into the wider part of the trapezoid – the disadvantage would be that the garden becomes 3 meters smaller, and our plan for a later winter garden on the south side would be made impossible because it would then be outside the building boundaries.
Alternatively, the architect suggested "recessing the northeast corner of the house on the upper floor" and then attaching a flat roof at this point on the concrete slab of the ground floor – at least visually, I find that questionable, and possibly also as a thermal bridge or a later point of moisture ingress.
On the ground floor at this point is a bathroom, which we hardly managed to plan with a usable area at all, so simply making the house smaller on both floors at this corner is not an option.
Finally, there would of course be the option to ask the neighbors (who are nice and would probably agree) whether they would register an easement (Baulast) for their property (what are the “usual” conditions if they were to ask for payment?).
Do you have any good ideas on how to make the corner of the house "flatter" or how else to meet the boundary distance without shifting everything 3 meters to the south to gain the 30 centimeters at the slanted building boundary?
Upper floor, whose corner would have to be “recessed”:
Section of the house viewed from said “corner,” the too high corner circled here:
Plot/building window:
The architect has received the building application back from the district for revisions – because we have planned high ceilings on both floors, we reach a gutter height of 6.66m and must therefore maintain a boundary distance of 3.33m instead of the 3 meters.
The simplest way to achieve this would be to shift the entire building completely up to the building boundary to the south, practically into the wider part of the trapezoid – the disadvantage would be that the garden becomes 3 meters smaller, and our plan for a later winter garden on the south side would be made impossible because it would then be outside the building boundaries.
Alternatively, the architect suggested "recessing the northeast corner of the house on the upper floor" and then attaching a flat roof at this point on the concrete slab of the ground floor – at least visually, I find that questionable, and possibly also as a thermal bridge or a later point of moisture ingress.
On the ground floor at this point is a bathroom, which we hardly managed to plan with a usable area at all, so simply making the house smaller on both floors at this corner is not an option.
Finally, there would of course be the option to ask the neighbors (who are nice and would probably agree) whether they would register an easement (Baulast) for their property (what are the “usual” conditions if they were to ask for payment?).
Do you have any good ideas on how to make the corner of the house "flatter" or how else to meet the boundary distance without shifting everything 3 meters to the south to gain the 30 centimeters at the slanted building boundary?
Upper floor, whose corner would have to be “recessed”:
Section of the house viewed from said “corner,” the too high corner circled here:
Plot/building window: