House Construction 2.0 - First Floor Plan Draft

Go ahead, he's - as always - already drifted off in various directions anyway, I would be happy about your photos. :)

There are no new photos yet, you have already seen the existing photos in the picture thread. Off topic: But earlier my husband told me that he saw three deer behind our house. And that, although it only takes us 21 minutes by car to get to the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. :) Strangely, all our neighbors have fences and thick hedges at the back towards the field, which we intended to forgo from the start, and now, with the deer, we leave everything open at the back anyway, like at our last house. On the left and right the neighbors have already put up their hedges and fences.

Soil survey including dynamic probing & foundation recommendation as well as structural analysis are priced in.

Did you build with a general contractor or through individual contracts? On what grounds should earth-contact walls be added on top? That would legally not hold at all if they offer a complete residential building on this plot (which is specifically named and surveyed by them), according to their construction performance description, and then afterwards say earth-contact walls are not included in the offer?!
The unknown in this equation are the earthworks that occur after the soil survey, and possibly disposal – if the soil cannot be stored on the property.

Quite simply, the initial prices stated in the construction performance description were solid wood or timber frame. So it was known that something else would come. Take a look at what yours says. No one had "wall made of waterproof concrete (WU-Beton) with thickness according to structural analysis, reinforced according to structural analysis. Insulated on earth side."

The structural engineer is clearly priced in, but is the structural analysis available with the corresponding requirements, and are these priced in? At that time, rather unusual. That would mean he still has to recalculate at least once due to changes. The structural engineer determines the slab thickness, floor slab thickness, reinforcement, etc.

There are no new photos yet, you have already seen the existing photos in the picture thread. Off topic: But earlier my husband told me that he saw three deer behind our house. And that, even though it only takes us 21 minutes by car to get to the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. :) Strangely, all our neighbors have fences and thick hedges at the back towards the field, which we have intended to do without from the beginning, and now, with the deer, we leave everything open at the back anyway, as with our last house. On the left and right, the neighbors have already put up their hedges and fences.

Leave it open. Yesterday in front of the office window stood a really beautiful buck. I love deer. It feels calming even though I have often been startled.

One must attribute a healthy dose of arrogance to everyone, including you.

You seem to be approaching this quite naively.

However, he is right about that.

How can you derive the window heights from the pictures? o_O

Oh wow, I hadn’t even noticed that. I was waiting for the views. o_O

Your house construction 2.0, and you can't read a floor plan o_O Maybe that’s also why you are enthusiastic about the symmetry in the floor plan (not the house elevation – the floor plan… bird’s eye view… that’s so irrelevant, and… in my eyes, the sleeping level is a total disaster. Who voluntarily creates a tube-like hallway that leads into darkness, then divides it further into two more dark areas, and places a protrusion in each bedroom entrance that neglects to “hide” wardrobes behind doors?!? That’s nonsense… typical general contractor nonsense, who picks up something from the client and then executes it like that.

Maybe it would also be an option to build the house as drawn, without the garage part.

That would at least be cost-effective.

Is that so? I had the feeling I had talked to the GCs and read the offer, but

Does the offer explicitly include the basement excavation, basement exterior insulation, etc.? Terrain adjustment?

You’ll be waiting a long time here as well, you can’t disclose any property info here without some nutcases starting to google your address.

Therefore – twist and turn it as you want, there won’t be any more property data this time.

Dimensions and contour lines! Nothing else matters. Without property details, nothing can be said. Your orientation isn’t that great right now. Slope… there can be no constructive contribution. At least no changes can be suggested. I’m also thinking more about the sunken city villa. There’s nothing beautiful about that if the house doesn’t fit _with_ the floor plan. Maybe everything has its reason here, but we don’t know the background. Regarding your last suggestion (aside from the fact that there is still much need for clarification between you and the GC): Upper floor, already put into words: I would modify the ground floor like this if at all: Green would be a nicely successful line of sight to Or something like this with a reduction, because it actually isn’t covered (in terms of design) area. If you remove the idiotic symmetry of the sleeping level, you can also create something reasonable here. Ultimately, it’s a city villa floor plan where the already large corridors were further inflated because of the straight staircase The toilet in the south without a window, but panoramic windows in the hallway to the north is quite bold in our regions ;)

Contrary to my original plan, I have now imported it into SH3D and tinkered with it a bit.
I discarded the colossal garage, with the plan to realize a smaller carport with a shed separate from the building structure.

I have widened the residential house a bit. Hobby swaps with fitness. Guest and fitness I merged on the upper floor.
Overall, that is probably still too many square meters. Maybe the entire construction can still be pushed smaller by a few centimeters on all outer sides so that the total square meters become somewhat smaller.

You haven’t gained anything with a few centimeters per building side...
Your floor plan is > 240 sqm... With a sloping plot and a budget of 550k. Sorry, but it’s slowly becoming just ridiculously arrogant how the many hints are being ignored here...

The neighbors on the left and right have already put up their hedges and fences.

Why do you think?!
My parents also have deer, but no flowers in the garden!