Floor plan single-family house city villa – modern architectural design

I would omit the child bathroom I. It makes the rooms unusable and uncomfortable due to too many doors. It reminds me of economy class in the hospital. How many bathrooms do you actually want to clean (or have cleaned)?

Make a proper bathroom for the kids. Bathroom II - 6-7 sqm is more than enough, but not like this. The long corridor reminds me of typical old building guest toilets, where after the door there is still a 20m corridor before you reach the toilet - it doesn’t do justice to your design... GD

For 5 children one bathroom is too few. At least that would be the case for us.

About the floor plan itself: Three and a half things immediately catch my attention.

First, the lighting design.
- Bathroom on the ground floor without a window
- due to the roof overhangs, the ground floor is darker than expected.
- on the upper floor, from my point of view, some windows are also unfavorable in places. (For example, often windows only on one exterior wall, even if a room has several exterior walls. In terms of light, thermal protection, view, spatial effect and much more, windows on several exterior walls are often better than just on one wall.)

Second: bathrooms on the upper floor
- First of all, a compliment: finally a design with a sensible arrangement of master bedroom, dressing room and master bathroom.
- but: bathtubs?! (The overall project here will be extremely expensive, and then not even a bathtub in the house? Okay. Unusual choice.)
- master bathroom: You open the door and the walkway and view lead directly against the wall. I’ve seen nicer layouts.
- the "pass-through bathroom" could later become problematic in terms of privacy for the children. I wouldn’t plan it that way.

Third: The planning fights extremely hard against the plot.
- Whether the planning is permissible as is (reference point height) I do not know. I cannot assess that. The chosen solution will be very complex and very expensive.

And one half point more: door position in children’s room V.

You have given a nice task to an architect. The architect solves many places with "more" space. That is absolutely legitimate. Therefore, the +1 floor will also work. In the 0 floor, despite the available space, I see a few potential weaknesses in the design. The architectural style is a matter of taste; what the pictures show is representative and mixes modern and traditional elements. I cannot yet recognize the narrative arc based on the drawings, but that could be on me. 1. The entrance area is nice and large, which is initially very pleasant. If you are also among the families who leave or even pile up jackets, shoes, and other stuff at the entrance, the question arises as to "where," because very little is provided for that. 2. The living area is comparatively small. The furnishing by the architect does not take into account all the people living in the house. Taking the corner from the terrace and assigning it to the living room would be one way to solve this. 3. Using a terrace as an extended living space corresponds to a lifestyle that we also like to live. That the swimming pool is immediately adjacent has a hotel quality. To what extent you really want it all year round, I cannot judge. If I see it correctly, you could design the property so that the swimming and outdoor sauna area is not on the same level as the 0 floor. This gives you proximity to the terrace but takes the whole thing out of sight during the dark season. By the way, you could possibly build a "convertible roof" over it quite inconspicuously to be able to swim in winter as well. And a few small things: The storage room is large enough to get its own exterior door. Walking paths would be optimized immediately. The side door at the garage set a little further toward the bicycles (the space is not large if each person has at least one) avoids discomfort at the car, especially if the less frequently used favorite vehicles park in a not directly accessible position. Based on the overall proportions of the house, the staircase is too small for me. Not a functional, but an aesthetic question. Also an aesthetic question: The positioning of the office—looks somehow squeezed in. A connection from the pool to the pool technology is very sensible. Think of a cellar door and the storage of all the pool furniture if they should not stay outside in the cold season. Here too, the terracing of the pool toward the -1 level can pay off. If you raise the terrain so high, you can create additional parking space instead of soil and possibly separate the "nice cars" from everyday life. I cannot say anything about the approval feasibility.

Thank you for the comments and suggestions. We are already going through them in detail...

Dialogues are welcome, by the way ;)

Many laypeople simply count the "check marks" behind first "we kind of like it" and second to nth the wishes found again in the draft (and then just wonder what the weird uncle 11ant is complaining about again). Especially since he doesn't say anything about individual door swings or sink-to-counter distances or the like. But from a planning professional's perspective, this is a lousy PL (= planning without expertise), which, as the lawyer so nicely puts it, cannot be "cured" by nonetheless liking it. No, if I were to comment here like in the Frosta advertisement "delicious, Peter, but a little more Curcuma," I would find that so unprofessional that even as a Protestant I would have to go to confession ;-)

Many laypeople simply count the "check marks" behind firstly "we like it (somehow)" and secondly to n. the wishes found again in the draft (and then just wonder what the strange uncle 11ant is complaining about again). Especially since he doesn’t say anything against individual door swings or sink-basin distances or the like. But from a planning professional’s point of view, this is a lousy PL (= planning without knowledge), which also cannot be "cured" by nevertheless liking it, as the lawyer so nicely puts it. No, if I were to comment here like in the Frosta advertisement "delicious, Peter, but a little more Curcuma," I would find that so unprofessional that I would have to go to confession even as a Protestant ;-)

Dear Uncle 11ant (I’ll pick this up here for now),
I thank you for your efforts in reviewing and am certainly open to criticism, especially since I did not create the draft. Your sharpness aside; it prompts reflection, even if we do not fully agree. This is an experienced architect who has certainly taken the dimensions and property characteristics into account and has also observed the heights and requirements. He has already explicitly addressed the encroachments of the building envelope in the first conversation.

I do not see a lousy plan here, but of course, there is always room for improvement.

If your time permits, I would gladly like to see a rough draft from you that you would consider to fit better. I know this is not your task, but since you are exercising such harsh criticism, I would be interested to know how you would solve it with the given number of rooms on the upper floor and the specified building envelope :)