High and heated sports room next to the garage? - Ideas wanted

Hello everyone,

we have found a plot of land near Regensburg. It is just over 1,000 sqm and is almost square-shaped. Therefore, we are not restricted in the floor plan of the building. We want to build solid (either expanded clay or insulated bricks) with 36cm or rather 50cm walls.

Actually, I wanted to place two prefabricated garages away from the house near the street. But since we also imagine a room about 3 x 6 m in size next to the garage for sports (with barbells, pull-up rig, airbike, etc.), we have now moved away from the cheaper prefabricated garages. Instead, we now imagine the garages again to the east of the residential building (connected by a door).

Now there are special requirements for the sports room:
- it must be at least 3.00 m high (ideally 3.20 m)
- about 3 x 6 m in area
- of course not very cold in winter, as it usually is in the garage in winter.

Does it make sense to build the sports room directly east of the residential building and then the double garage further east from there? Is a double garage with 3.00 m height not too high? Also as a gable roof, as we envision for the residential building. Will a garage directly next to the house be heated somewhat, or only insulated, or none of both? Because the sports room shouldn’t have 5°C in winter.

Unfortunately, we have not yet designed a floor plan for the residential building. At the moment, we are first breaking our heads—although it sounds strange—about our sports room. Oh yes, due to the height of 3 m and because we like to go out in front of the garage / sports room in the sun in good weather, a sports room in the basement is out of the question.

Basically, the room should look roughly like this. However, not like here in a normal garage, but as a single room if possible (but also with a roller door / or wide door and windows, so that it can be well ventilated). A single room is also better because of heating, right?



Maybe you can send us some ideas on how and where to best accommodate a high sports room heated in winter in a new building. Next to the garage? Or rather two prefabricated garages and the sports room attached to the east side of the house?

Thank you very much for your time and possible tips. Marius

The sports room will cost you 50,000. For that, you can go to the best fitness studio with sauna and free drinks for 150 years. Are you sure about that?

Really? Even if I decide against a prefabricated garage and have one with a pitched roof built east of the building instead? It just has to be 3 meters wider plus an extra wall. Hmm, or what other alternatives are there?

has already pointed out that it will not be cheap. In principle, the requirements/costs are almost the same as for the rest of the living area. We have integrated the sports room into the house. This also makes it easier to use the controlled residential ventilation and heating. Economically, it is not a single-family house anyway, and if it is important to someone, just do it.

Garage-like, or as part of the garage, you won't achieve the height, since a boundary garage may not be taller than 3m in total. Since you don't have a floor plan yet, I would rather assign the architect the task of integrating this room into the house (ground floor). That will at least not be more expensive than such a luxury extension. If, for example, you want to build a gable roof, it would certainly be possible to omit part of the ground floor ceiling over this room and thus achieve the desired room height there (or even higher). With 2 full floors, that would be "less attractive" again, as the room would then probably have a height of about 5.5 - 6m.

has already pointed out that it won't be cheap.
In principle, the requirements/costs are almost the same as for the rest of the living area.
We have integrated the sports room into the house. This makes it easier to share the controlled residential ventilation and heating.
Economically, it is not a single-family house anyway, and if it is important to you, just do it.

Yes, I understand that it won’t be cheap now. But it does have a certain priority, and thus we are also willing to put some money into it. But I really didn’t expect 50k. It is just a 3x6 room with 3.2m height, right? Connected to the single-family house or the garages?

I see the problem with simply integrating it into the single-family house is the minimum room height of 3 / 3.2 m. A normal single-family house usually doesn’t have rooms that high.