House floor plan (access via slope)

The staircase to the entrance on the ground floor has only disadvantages
- high costs
- keeping it free of snow and ice
- not necessarily easier to walk on for those who are frail

I would not plan the basement as a utility cellar and instead include it more in the living space. The fact is, every step eventually becomes difficult. Inside, a stairlift helps, and with a straight staircase, it is even cheaper. Straight, even steps are also easier to walk on. It's not just the knees that stop cooperating. Balance, surefootedness, etc.

Draw all desired furniture into the floor plan once. It doesn’t fit. Your dining area is already too small.
Think about how you want to live there, also in old age if one of you is no longer fit but still far from needing a nursing home.
Look around your surroundings and talk to those affected. Many have already had relatives in need of care or are themselves no longer so steady.
To me, it seems like "take a standard house for a family, push a basement down, and reassign the children's rooms."
Is that really what you want? Does it meet your needs?

Thank you for all the constructive feedback!

We have already drawn in the furniture, that should be fine.

And don’t forget, it’s for 2 people, no family, no parties! We would also prefer more space, but the plot (nice location about 1 km from a beautiful city center) is just like that.

I have now sketched (again) the idea of moving the parking spaces from the southwest location to the north and planned the entrance through the cellar (brown door), but: Where to put the stairway (stairs) cellar <=> ground floor? - Either yellow arrow, you lose the only two cellar windows - Or red arrow, you come out on the ground floor in the southwest area where the dining/living room should be. - Or (blue) create a corridor in the cellar, but then you have to walk 5 meters straight ahead in the cellar corridor, 5 meters left, to then reach the stairs. I don’t find that pleasant/inviting, do you?

Any other ideas on how to accommodate the garage and carport and how to implement the house access (through the cellar or the ground floor)?

(An advantage of the parking spaces in the “north” (this sketch) would be that the house could be somewhat wider…)

Regardless of the floor plan, this is for me the prime example of how to rape a property... :oops:

I haven't even looked at the floor plans yet because I was so shocked by the 3D view.

Sorry, but I just don't like it at all.

It is known that you are planning for 2. Your demand according to the questionnaire is 6 dining places, sometimes even 10. Cozy 4 with counter 6 are drawn in. Even for 2, the ground floor is overloaded and upstairs there is space. To me, the house does not seem designed for you, but rather a standard family house somehow altered.

I do not see the terrain modeling shown in the 3D drawing in the height specifications. Something else is going on. I totally overlooked that but is right

Therefore, according to the opinion of two independent architects, a basement makes sense here.

I am not criticizing the basement either. I would just make it habitable and omit the upper floor. That is cheaper in the end. Your new example: why do you draw soil in the southwest where there is none? Just use the plot as it is. Your house divides it into levels anyway…

And don't forget, it's about 2 people, no family, no parties!

For traffic areas and furnishing it doesn't matter whether 2 or 10 people: even one wants to be able to use a bathroom without having to squeeze. A terrace door must also be practically accessible for one person. Here also an example of a house for 2 from , but it is not a hillside house. https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/grundriss-haus-fuer-zwei-auf-etwa-150qm-stellt-sich-vor.35646/ But yours is also not a slab-on-ground house with basement.