Land planning | House, terrace, parking spaces

Hello everyone,

after a long search, we have finally been offered a nice plot of land in a good location and have decided to go for it. We are currently considering how to optimally build on it within the allowed possibilities and would greatly appreciate your ideas.

Requirements from the development plan:
- Building use ordinance 2017
- Floor area ratio: 0.25
- Parking spaces: At least two parking spaces must be provided per residential unit
- Garages, carports, and outbuildings are not permitted within a 5m wide strip behind the street boundary line
Federal state: Schleswig Holstein

The plot has a size of 568m². The house will have a footprint of about 115m². There remain 27m² for terrace planning and 71m² for parking spaces.

Terrace:
It is important to us to be able to enjoy a cozy meal and sit outside in summer with 4-8 people. Our first idea is to create two terraces (on both sides of the bay window) of similar sizes. This way, we would have one terrace for a dining table with chairs and one for a cozy seating area. How did you approach this in your planning, or did you consciously wait until after moving in?

Parking spaces:
Our goal is to find a solution that allows us to move both cars independently off the property. Further criteria are that ideally the front door is "free" (i.e. no car is parked directly in front) and that it is easy to access. Since we are building without a basement, additional storage space for garden tools and room for bicycles is also needed.

Below you can see the current status of our considerations in two variants. Unfortunately, neither fits within the specified floor area ratio yet. The terrace planning is identical in both variants. How would you solve this?

A change in the floor plan of the house towards "entrance to the street" has unfortunately failed for us so far.

Variant #1: Double carport


Variant #2: Carport + parking space


Thanks in advance for your feedback and suggestions!

Can you upload the floor plan and completed questionnaire?

Sure, gladly:

Development plan/restrictions
Size of the plot: 568m²
Slope: No
Site coverage ratio: 0.25
Floor area ratio: 1
Building window, building line and boundary: 5m to the street and opposite side
Edge development: No special features
Number of parking spaces: 2 per residential unit
Number of floors: I
Roof shape: Gable, hip and tent roof allowed
Style direction: No restriction
Orientation: No restriction
Maximum heights/limits: No restrictions
Further requirements: Brick / roof tile color, two parking spaces on the property, garages, carports and outbuildings are not allowed within a 5m wide strip behind the street boundary line

Requirements of the builders
Style direction, roof shape, building type: Modern, gable roof city house appearance, single-family house
Basement, floors: No / ground floor & upper floor (knee wall ~1.50m)
Number of persons, age: Currently 2, later 4
Space requirements on ground floor, upper floor (total approx. 165m² living area)
- Kitchen: ~11 m²
- Dining & living area: ~41 m²
- Workroom: ~10 m²
- Utility room: ~10 m²
- Hallway: ~12 m²
- Shower WC: ~4.5 m²

Upper floor (living space)
- Dressing room: ~10 m²
- Bedroom: ~16 m²
- Children's room: ~14 m²
- Bathroom: ~12 m²
- Hallway incl. workplace: 10.5 m²

Office: Family use or home office? 2x home office: one room downstairs and a workplace upstairs
Overnight guests per year: rare
Open or closed architecture: Open
Conservative or modern construction: conservative and modern
Open kitchen, cooking island: Yes / yes
Number of dining seats: 6-8
Fireplace: Yes, gas fireplace
Music/stereo wall: No
Balcony, roof terrace: No, no
Garage, carport: Carport, see above
Utility garden, greenhouse: No, no
Further wishes/special features/daily routine, also reasons why this or that should or should not be: Nothing special

House design
By whom is the planning:
- Planner from a construction company: basic ideas for the floor plan originate from a variant of the Viebrockhaus Maxime 610 floor plan, then further developed independently (especially upper floor)
- Architect
- Do-it-yourself
What do you particularly like? Why? Bay window for dining area, fireplace visible from sofa, corner glazing with seating area, kitchen facing the street, concrete staircase with storage room.
What do you not like? Why? Little space for jackets and shoes in the hallway (only wardrobe niche), relatively dark stairway, entrance to the side (therefore very long driveway)
Price estimate according to architect/planner: approx. 370,000
Personal price limit for the house, including equipment: 385,000
Preferred heating technology: central ventilation with heat pump

If you had to do without, which details/extensions
- can you do without: Currently nothing....
- cannot do without: Bay window, corner windows, number of rooms

Why is the design as it is now? For example
See above

What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
Is it possible to move the entrance to the street without fundamentally changing the room layout?

Here is the rough room layout, shortly redrawn:

Ground floor


Upper floor (knee wall 1.50)

Variant B provides more space in the garden. Make at least one of the terraces out of wood without sealing the ground surface - that should be approvable. I find the plan to drive through the property up to the carport overall quite unfavorable - changing that would be like "Go back to Badstraße."

I would probably go back.
Short driveway saves money.
The budget is quite tight.

The budget for the work outside the house (Carport, driveway, garden) is approximately 30,000 euros. Therefore, we will not be able to realize all ideas immediately. It is important for us now to plan the distances correctly. I have allocated the 15,000 difference from the questionnaire to the equipment inside the house.