Ground-level terrace - Challenges

Hello everyone,

we are currently working on the "planning" of the terrace.

It has become clear to us (especially now that the first construction projects are starting here) that due to the groundwater level we will have an "elevated terrace."

This initially means that we will not have a "level" terrace with the garden if we want the terrace to be at the same height as the ground floor.
As a result, this means that we will have a "hump" (due to soil filling) toward the garden, which further reduces the plot area.
One idea was to have an "elevated terrace" made of a steel structure, but we find that awful.
Another idea was to build a descent with stairs. Problem with that: then we would probably be very close to the neighbor's property again.

According to my calculation, the height difference would be about 0.7m. (Garage height 148.44, ground floor height 149.14, see section, GW max between 145.26-146.20) That would certainly be 4-5 steps, right? The distance to the neighbor's property is 6.32 meters, minus the terrace width of 2.65 meters leaves a remaining distance of 3.67 meters and I think that is where the tolerance of the development plan ends.

Do you have any ideas on how to solve this most cleverly?

Attached are excerpts of section, site plan, and ground floor plan:

Make the terrace edge from natural stone dry wall. This way you have two levels but not the unwanted "hump". The steps are made from large 3 stone blocks – this is also a piece of garden design. Here is an example of such a staircase (for us, the path from the terrace in front of the kitchen down into the middle garden)

I have thought about it in a similar way, see sketch and examples I found online. I think two steps are completely sufficient for a height difference of 0.7 meters.

I think two steps are completely sufficient for a 0.7 meter height difference

These are 35 cm step heights, already 3 steps could be a bit tight. Try that out. The example pictures from , I estimate one picture shows 2 steps about 15-17 cm each and the other picture 4 steps about 18-20 cm each step height.

so 2 steps help for max. 30cm difference.... you will probably need 5