Floor plan single-family house approx. 180 m²

I just looked at it again: the building volume with garage is too elongated. But whatever. What I wanted to say is: there are too many window shapes.

Best regards, Yvonne

Basically, I notice that I rarely see a house with so much outer skin.

I feel the same way.

Can something like this be built according to the Energy Saving Ordinance without losing too much cost to additional insulation, etc.?

After all, half a meter of castle wall thickness. What is considered the requirement in Austria?

A floor plan of an Austrian provider serves as a template.

Only as a template, or is it also supposed to be built with this provider (and one of their wall constructions)? Am I right in assuming that the Kötz 158 is meant?

Yes, exactly, this is the template. And as I said, we quite like it. However, the draft has one room too few on the upper floor, and the desired later separation between the ground floor and the upper floor is not possible.

The thing with the garage is certainly correct. It looks very long. But I think the position of the garage on the side of the property would fit. Possibly an open carport would be the better alternative to make the building appear more compact. With the room program on the ground floor, I think it will always result in a bungalow-like floor plan, which of course can/must still be optimized.


Regarding your question about why windfang and anteroom: For me, the two rooms have different functions. The windfang is simply meant to welcome guests, where you can hang up coats and put down shoes, and in my opinion, it should not be too narrow. The anteroom is then clearly part of the actual living area, serving as the connection between the individual areas. In this case, the living-dining area is to the south, the parents' area to the west, and the staircase to the upper floor is to the east. The windfang should be equipped with tiles and the anteroom with parquet. Friends of ours have it like this (a large windfang including wardrobe and then an anteroom), and we really like it.
Access to the bedroom and bathroom (including WC) via the dressing room is certainly a good idea and is also solved that way in the template. However, it does not really correspond to our morning and evening routines. We also want a separate WC and not integrated into the bathroom, as we simply think it is more practical and it also spares us an extra guest WC.
Thanks in any case for your idea. We are very grateful for all suggestions. One quickly becomes blind to issues when involved.

But you defend the operational blindness quite well ;)

Anyway :-)

The explanations are mainly intended to give you an insight into our thought processes and habits. Attached is our current apartment, where we feel very comfortable, even though, for example, the entrance area is much too narrow for us. That’s probably also why there is a large vestibule in the plan.

I would also have no problem with the kitchen + dining area facing west, the parents' area facing east, the living room in the middle, or arranged in any other way.

So I'll just write very plainly:
I don't like:
- the tube-like appearing all-room
- the huge roof surfaces, all of which need to be maintained
- the small bathrooms, whose doors always hit other doors and where you practically have to fold yourself up so that your knees don't hit the wall
- the irregular window arrangement or exterior view
- the view of the terrace from the living room is (probably intentionally) blocked
- long walking distances - to get from the living room to the bedroom, I have to take a vacation first
- dirty laundry has to be carried through the all-room to the utility room

I like:
- nicely sized entrance/reception area
- cozy terrace
- canopies