House and garage - How best to place them on the properties?

How would you place the house and the garage? Maybe you can help us a little and give us new ideas that will help us move forward.

If you spare the readers the mental rotation by drawing the variants yourself into the site plan, perhaps a larger circle of helpers will open up.

Personally, I would firstly want to keep my driveway short and prefer to exit onto a quiet street rather than a busier one, and "reserve" driving paths for ambulance, furniture or garbage trucks, and playing children. Secondly, I consider passages between the house and garage as sensible as passages from the house into the garage as unnecessary.

But that is only regarding the principle question of the arrangement of house / garage / driveway; for the further question of the most advantageous house placement in relation to sun and garden, as I said, I find it clearer if you can discuss it 1:1 and do not have to switch mentally by 130° first.

[written almost simultaneously with kaho674]

1655 is the garbage bin storage space, just like 1657... and others that you can't see in the picture.
Eichenforst street ends at Pöhler (no through street). It only serves as access to all the houses in the settlement. The garbage truck comes every 1 or 2 weeks, only drives along the public street (Eichenforst), collects the garbage and opens Pöhler for passage on those days. The private streets are not driven on. The garbage bins should then be placed there by all parties. Otherwise, as usual, everyone in front of their house.

I don't quite understand your suggestion. Open to the west? According to the plan, we would have our terrace there (in front of the bay window of the house) and then terrace and garden open to the street? If you meant it differently, could you maybe quickly sketch it in Paint?

I don't do anything with Paint [emoji2] Drawing is attached.
With you, one can only orient oneself by the path and street. So you rotate your drawing... (for you, the path is in the south instead of the north!?) and (not only) for me, your garage is in the west [emoji848]

I once made a drawing with our idea. With this placement, we would have the terrace on the west side and partly on the south side, and the entire garden area (lawn) on the south side. In front of the garage, parking space number 1 and next to it parking space number 2. The proportions are of course not correct; I just want to illustrate our idea.

With the variant from kaho674 and basically the idea of placing the house exactly on the other side, we would have the large garden area and terrace on the west side. Wouldn't we then block the entire south side with the house? The house would also cast a shadow on the garden area. I don't understand the point of this variant.

Basically, something about the streets:

The new development area is located in a residential neighborhood between two streets. The street Eichenforst is only built as a through road to access the new houses. Since Pöhler will be at the end of the street, no cars will drive through there. With a total of 11 single-family houses, there will accordingly be very little traffic. Only the people who live there or visit. Our plots are in row 3 of 4, so even the first two rows won't have to drive very far.

We have never built before and therefore don't have much experience. Maybe we simply have a flaw in our thinking, but logically our variant seems the most reasonable to us.

PS: Attached is a larger plan from the land seller who will also commission the development. In his drawing, he also placed the houses in the corner as we did and positioned the house entrance on the side of the footpath. However, two houses were initially planned on our plots.

The purpose is first to shield the garden from the main street using the house. No one could have guessed that this is a dead end. And whether it will remain so is probably uncertain.

Secondly, I assumed that the access would be via the other two adjacent streets. I can just imagine the faces of your neighbors, who all stick to the pedestrian zone, and you are the only one building wider there and driving in and out with the car. They will be grateful that the safe path for the children is now also being driven on.

Real shade is only on the north side. The sun moves around, after all. A terrace facing south, of course, has the most sun – not always advantageous, but if the street is so quiet, I would probably also orient it that way. However, I would still not expand the footpath. That would be fatal and uncomfortable for me.

Right, I should have described that better. I didn't think that far on that point.

But the dead end will remain in the future as well. When the city created the development plan, the residents living at the end of the street from Eichenforst had objections to a road being built there. Basically nothing against a residential area there but against the road. If the road were open, many would use the street as a shortcut who otherwise have to drive around. The residents thus enforced the dead end as a condition with the city so that the Eichenforst road could be built. Eichenforst therefore remains a public street with a dead end; the side streets are private roads of the houses, which also only go up to the end of the properties and are also dead ends. The private roads only serve as access to the individual houses. Thus, overall there will be very little traffic there. The Emsring is not a main road either. The main road is one street further... from which you hardly notice anything in the new development area.

I have to disappoint you: the way you imagine it in the drawing, it won’t work.


Here you have a mini house on a 19-meter wide plot.
You have a 5-meter boundary distance in the south and 1.5-2 (who comes up with this "up to"?) meters in the north.
As you have drawn it, no terrace will be possible there.
First, think about the driveway and choose a pen and graph paper if you have difficulties with the proportions [emoji2]