Land planning for a house on a gentle slope

Hello community,

we are in the final stages of the floor plan planning with the architect and have had the house placed on the existing plot.

The house is to be built at street level - unfortunately, the plot has a drop of about 1.5 meters immediately after the street and then drops another meter over a length of about 30 meters. Accordingly, our house including driveway and carport is currently hanging in the air and we are not quite sure how to integrate this into a nice plot design.

My wish was actually to have a piece of level garden/lawn after the terrace, which should be located at the front left corner of the house, in order to be able to entertain guests in a ground-level garden. The architect says this will be difficult, as the terrain outside the terrace may not be raised by more than one meter without approval, which would be necessary.

Furthermore, I am not yet satisfied with the solution of the carport supported by retaining walls.

The advantage is that a nice basement apartment can be built there, which is almost a ground floor apartment with a nice side entrance and a small terrace between the house and the carport.

Do you have any suggestions? 3D plan of the current terrain attached.

Thank you!

First thought: Half floors. Entrance, cloakroom, utility room at street level, living, cooking half a floor down to garden level, sleeping / bathroom / children 1 and 2 half floors up.

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First thought: Split levels. Entrance, cloakroom, utility room at street level, living, cooking half a level down to the garden level, sleeping / bath / children 1 or 2 half-levels up.

How do you then represent the basement? It would also need split levels, right?

How do you then represent the cellar? It also needs half floors, right?

Well. With SplitLevel there is then only a half cellar, the rest is fully habitable space. The construction with the depicted cellar level is not nice.

that a nice cellar apartment can be built on it, which is almost a ground floor apartment with a nice side entrance as well as a small terrace between the house and the carport.

It is nicer to claim this space for oneself in one’s own residential unit.

How do you then represent the basement? It then also needs half floors, doesn't it?

Usually only in the singular.