Floor plans of a single-family house on 640m² with low eaves height

The profiles of matte1987 and hampshire are not visible to me (wanted to find the threads through them). I found the plans of sichtbeton82. If you have links, please feel free to share.

Here is my planning thread
https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/haus-mit-dachterrasse-in-passau.13943/

Pictures of the interior can be found here
https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/haus-bilderthread-zeigt-her-eure-hausbilder.14011/post-235632
https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/haus-bilderthread-zeigt-her-eure-hausbilder.14011/post-237153

Exterior here
https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/haus-bilderthread-zeigt-her-eure-hausbilder.14011/post-257355

I can only strongly recommend planning WITH the terrain on a sloped plot and not against it.
When I sometimes drive through new development areas, I sometimes wonder. Enormous amounts of soil are moved to place a "normal" house on a sloped plot.
We were also thinking like that at the beginning, but in the end, I am really glad that I embraced the plot.

Didn’t you once create a thread where users could show their planning progress and how it was ultimately built? I once summarized our story a bit, but can’t find the topic.

The profiles of matte1987 and hampshire are not accessible to me (I wanted to find the threads through them).

If, when hovering the mouse over the member names, clicking on the member name oopses, then click on the number of their posts. Then you won’t find out how old they are, what professions they have, etc., but you will still see their posts. However, I believe there is probably a stumbling block somewhere in the forum software: with new members I often see a blocked view of their profiles more often than is usual on average. Therefore, I suspect a default invisibility that you first have to click away.

I can only strongly recommend planning WITH the terrain for a hillside property and not against it.

Yes absolutely – but first of all thanks for your excellent service in providing the sources here yourself, which I usually have to dig up first. So building against the property I must clearly say is almost a prototypical example of the pedagogical maxim "little sins are immediately punished by dear God" – that way the house can no longer get a foothold. A slope is not an enemy – but it quickly looks like one if you have previously been intoxicated by collections of images with dreamlike ideas of slab castles.

@11ant Didn’t you create a thread once where users could show their planning progress and how they ultimately built? I once summarized our story a bit briefly there but can’t find the topic.

Oh, you probably mean my Grütze thread – it’s posts #4 and #5 there.

I can’t find the thread myself anymore. I once posted a floor plan somewhere. We built almost ground-level quite high on the slope. One side is built into the hill, the slope is supported with concrete foundations, and one side is slightly out of the hill. The slope is a bit steeper than yours. We have a somewhat larger plot than you and were therefore able to build slightly wider. But hardly any depth. The left half of the house consists of one room + a bathroom on 2 levels. Under the upper level to the north is rock. In the middle is a combined room for entrance, laundry, and wardrobe. We made the children’s apartments separate, as neighbors. Separate front door, separate kitchenette, separate bathroom, and no connection inside the house. To the south, the living units are connected by a wooden terrace/balcony. It wasn’t really cost-optimized, but after a little more than a year in the house, we feel very comfortable. The slope and driveway cost a significant extra charge. In return, we have a wonderful and unobstructed view over all the roofs of the 40-house village down into the valley. Details gladly via PM or come by. The pictures are not quite new, some things have grown back in the meantime, the trash put away, and the hot tub set up.

House with south-southeast balcony View with coffee from the dining table: Slope reinforcement at the driveway: Entrance north side:

I can only advise you to take an architect on board who is already (positively) known at the local building authority and discuss your project there. We went to the first preliminary meeting with a very simple sketch. We drew three floors. The lower floor is extended further out compared to the upper floor (terrace/balcony). We also have a very old development plan with the requirement to build one story. That means a full floor. The attic is not a full floor since it is smaller than three-quarters of the ground floor. The basement is not a full floor because it is (on average) "underground."

From above minimalistic...





Regarding the eaves height, it was the case with us that even the building authority could not give a 100% definition. They could not give us a fixed point because the definitions varied. In principle, this was "irrelevant" to the building authority anyway; what was important was that it fit in with the neighboring buildings. It is also important, for example, to know whether someone on the street violated regulations (dormers, building envelope, roof tile color, unauthorized cladding) or whether other conditions suggest a deviation from the standard. With us, the long-established residents still knew that the street was raised by about 1.5 meters in places. Consequently, the issue of eaves height was obsolete because we argued that it had to correspond with the street elevation.

As I said, take the opportunity to talk to the building authority...