How to change the floor plan?

Oh dear

Not nice to hear! Especially for the price!

The garage is really unusable, what is that, 4 m drive-through oh dear...

For the gate, there are alternatives that work like a roller shutter box and therefore do not require a deep space.

Or a completely different corner of pf as an alternative?

This is simply not for a prefabricated part but individually planned, possibly not even sensibly representable in solid form. It rather calls for a carport with an open side or something like that. These co-determination committees are also at work here. However, from previous projects, we have already learned how far one can go with them and how one can talk construction projects to death, so that things run a bit more smoothly in our building area. Apparently, this learning curve has not yet occurred with you.

No, they are resistant to learning. The responsible clerk also shamelessly said on the phone that the property would require a very special architecture due to its layout. She probably wanted to imply between the lines that you can’t do a run-of-the-mill design on the most expensive property... Something like, ha, if they have the money for the property, then the garage won’t make a big difference. They really don’t care at all. Quite a few builders have dropped out because the level of participation was greater than initially thought. But what annoys me the most is that all the planning effort that the builders have to pay for ends up being for nothing. Like with us now, it easily adds up to 10k. With independent architects, probably quite a bit more.

With gates, there are alternatives that work like roller shutter boxes and therefore don’t require deep space.

Roll-up doors, for example from Kaufmann in Köln-Rodenkirchen. In all sizes, for industry and stylish.

That is simply not for a prefabricated part but individually planned, possibly not even sensibly representable in solid form.

Bims prefabricated buildings Hoffmann (no relation, no affiliation) in Neuwied-Heimbach, my tip especially for custom garages with non-parallel walls. But I wouldn’t fiddle with anything, rather give my taxes to a more reasonable municipality.

These co-determination committees are also at work here.

Only: with what legitimacy at all? – "to the emperor what belongs to the emperor" is adequately fulfilled with a development plan.

The authorization comes directly from the City Council. Here, a green area is indeed being taken away for new buildings, which took years. The compromise was to build something high-quality, to consider nature, energetically overly modern and so on. The committee itself is a private-law body, not a building authority, but without its approval, the city is not allowed to sell the property.

There have been such committees in this region before. Designs were rejected because one of the participating artists did not like a window (floor-to-ceiling in the utility room, he didn’t like it). So highly individual things that were not previously found in the requirements catalog. That ends badly.
In another neighboring town, it was simply poorly organized. The committee met only once a quarter, and appointments were also canceled. The following year, no budget was planned for the external consultants (they thought everything could be done in one year or four meetings), and this during times of budget freezes.
As a result, the entire new development area was dead because nothing could be approved. Damage for the city, damage for the builders who, like apo, had proceeded with pre-financing.

Oh dear

Not nice to hear! Especially for the price!

The garage is really unusable, what is that, 4 m drive-through oh dear...

For the gate there would be alternatives that work like roller shutter boxes and therefore do not require a deep space.

Or a completely different corner of the plot as an alternative?

Yes, that’s probably what it will come down to. The problem is that we are in the catchment area of Porsche, Bosch and Daimler. Accordingly, the plots or existing properties are sold quickly. And I would like to be able to examine my place of residence, where I hopefully will live for the next 50 years, for longer than a few days.

Well then, I seem to recall that the sufficiency of this budget was already gently doubted. Even without additional costs for the design sheriffs’ special requests.

Yes, I was aware of that too, but that does not change the fact that the managing director of the architectural firm promised us the moon.
We signed the planning contract in March. Shortly thereafter his son, who is the actual architect, became ill. In the last few months they only involved another architect under my insistence, almost as a subcontract.
By then it was already too late to scrap the whole thing and start over.

We had received a cost estimate from him with a total volume of about 460k including incidental construction costs, garage and outdoor facilities...