Floor plan: who has the master bedroom on the ground floor?

Hi,
you have been pondering the design with the architect for a long time, so you will probably like it just as much, even though I wouldn’t do many things that way. Just my 50 cents:

[*]The garage is outside the building envelope? Will you get approval for that?
[*]The sealed area seems extremely large to me, do you have a site coverage ratio of 0.7-0.8? You will need that....
[*]If you already put the master bedroom downstairs (which is very good for use in old age) then also design the door widths at 0.9-1m so that you can get through with a walker / wheelchair.
[*]Floor-to-ceiling windows with external glass protection may look nice at first glance, but in my opinion are the combination of all possible disadvantages. An additional window surface to clean, cleaning only possible with life risk, doesn’t bring more fresh air when ventilating than a normal window and restricts the usable space in the room.
[*]Many greetings, Andreas

unfortunately, they are not yet fully planned - we are still in the process of "moving walls" here :)

after many planning rounds, we have now arrived together with our architect at this design draft, which we like quite a lot.

unfortunately, they are not fully planned yet - we are still in the process of "moving walls" here :)

Right now we are considering whether to make all windows floor-to-ceiling in the attic or only those of the south dormer and use normal windows on the gable sides.

That not only simply doesn’t fit at all.

But is also a certificate of poverty for the architect, whom I accordingly recommend replacing. Apparently, he is proceeding here in a highly unprofessional manner and has only convinced you with a wish-fulfillment picture. I would also derive the highest caution from this (no, honestly even great suspicion), whether the pool is really "drawn in" the budget. From my experience, these are signs of a " warns" architect – did you possibly commission him only for the scope “service phase 1 to 4”?

1. According to the tiny excerpt of the development plan, the plot has a half-meter difference in height of the reference height to the neighbor. This is already a strong indication of the assumption that the 11ant basement rule would result in the test result "basement = luxury." In the elevation drawings, there is not the slightest trace of this half meter. Unfortunately, I read this as initial suspicion that the architect (is he even a freelance one?) only familiarized himself with the building envelope from a bird’s-eye view and otherwise left service phase 1 to the protection of the gods.
2. On this basis, a clean clarification of the building masses may also not have been performed. As a consequence, the room program may have been incorrectly divided among the levels and a possibly to-be-dissolved basement still throws a wrench into the ground floor plan if the building envelope no longer provides the additional required basement replacement space.
3. The upper floor takes “priority” in demonstrating the implementation of the room program. This means: before the upper floor is not planned "finished," a ground floor logically cannot be derived from it. Thus, the shown ground floor is suspected to be under "Simshaus" suspicion.

The drawing represents an “neat but planning-technically untidy and doubtful” house exposé that primarily (and possibly nothing beyond that) enables a checkbox (at least of the appearance) of fulfilled wishes. Incidentally – just by the way – the reveal of the terrace door is inconsistently depicted.

While I initially only thought it was a nice gesture from you to update us after a year (albeit only with drawings instead of pictures of at least a rough construction once), it now seems to me like an unintentionally clever move to show the child not yet fallen into the well in time. For the architect, to put it nicely, it is “no honor roll,” but hopefully for you the benefit outweighs the shock of a feedback that unfortunately cannot be based on shared enthusiasm.

What I personally don’t like are the windows in the dining area. There is no homogeneous room planned there. Personally, I would never let a corner sofa in the dining area lead the windows. In 10 years, people either have that or don’t want that corner bench thing anymore. This window front there is very important for this room.

If you had the upper floor, it would make sense if the bedroom swapped with the bathroom. Regarding access to pool/bathroom: I consider the swap of terrace/seating area and pool more logical anyway. And then you could also reach the bathroom from the east via a path. Whether you basically imagine that all pool users will use your bathroom, nobody knows.

But now what I really don’t like: the windowlessness of the kitchen!
It’s really annoying if you always have to switch on a light for quick or short kitchen tasks. My suggestion: switch the staircase position with the kitchen and give the washing area and small chopping area natural light.. windows!