Land use for semi-detached houses or halves of semi-detached houses

We have not seen the assortment yet, but it does seem that everything is actually included.

If you take a look at the buildings on the parallel street, you shouldn’t expect that here either. But even the immediate surroundings with the recessed house on the direct neighboring property, a two-story building two plots away, several houses with shallow roof pitches a hundred meters away, extensions with flat roofs, and roof structures of various kinds everywhere. I wouldn’t fear too many restrictions here.

That gives hope. I was just wondering what "immediate surroundings" means. You now also say "a hundred meters away." As someone uninformed, I would have bet that it means the direct 2 to 3 neighbors on both sides of the street. If it can be interpreted more broadly, then I am somewhat relieved that our wish doesn’t seem very unrealistic.

Your left neighbor looks taller in the pictures. Or is that deceptive?

Unfortunately, the wide-angle photo distorts a bit, but the neighbor is still taller. I’d say about 1 to 1.5 meters, but it’s hard to estimate.

The street seems to slope slightly to the left, right?

Exactly, the street slopes up slightly there and then goes down again after the neighbor. On the right side from the street’s perspective, it rises a bit more. We had our follow-up meeting today with a prefab house provider. I’m happy to share details if we decide on this provider at some point. However, he introduced a new idea in case we want to skip the basement due to costs. One could also build a slab on a plateau so that you basically have to go up a staircase to the entrance first. A staircase to the living area cannot be avoided on this slope. And a basement finished as a living cellar is certainly more expensive than just a slab. But in my opinion, the additional benefit is worth it. It simply creates extra space and you don’t have to make the house as big overall, which saves costs that can be used for the basement. And I also like the possibility of going directly from the car into the house without stairs (for example, bringing groceries straight into a storage room in the basement). It was very good that this provider had several variants of things like flooring, wall tiles, stairs, doors, windows, door handles, sockets, roof tiles, gutters, etc. on display in the house, so you could already do a kind of non-binding preliminary sampling to get a much more realistic calculation of the offer. I definitely have homework again for the next few days – expanding the cost table / requirements table. Next, we want to get information from two regional developers about possible options. It is now also clear that the demolition should actually happen as soon as possible so that we can plan better with the site, since only then do surveying and soil reports make sense.

As an uninformed person, I would have now bet that it is about the direct 2 to 3 neighbors on both sides of the street.

As far as eave and ridge heights are concerned, this is usually true. However, if no clear line is recognizable, you have to take a broader view. Regarding the type, construction method, floor area ratio/plot ratio or the buildable area, this is necessary anyway.

that our wish does not seem very unrealistic

As long as you don’t want a two-story building with a recessed top floor in Bauhaus style, I do not expect any resistance.

One could also build a slab on a plateau, so that you basically have to climb stairs to the entrance first.

You won't be able to avoid stairs to the living area with this slope location. And a basement finished as a living cellar is certainly more expensive than just a slab. But in my opinion, the additional benefit is worth it. It simply creates extra space and you don't have to make the house overall so large, which in turn saves some costs and can be used for the basement. And I also like the possibility to get from the car directly into the house without stairs (e.g., bringing groceries directly into a storage room in the basement).

Sorry, can you sketch that out? How do you get from the car to the plateau without stairs and still have a basement? I am not quite getting it right now. ops:

First of all, a correction of my sentence

And the possibility to go directly from the car into the car without stairs I also find good

And the possibility to go directly from the car into the house without stairs I also find good.

I don’t quite follow here.

Yes, it was written a bit mixed. Let’s clear that up briefly:

This is roughly how I imagine the implementation with basement / lower floor:


Of course not to scale and only meant to illustrate the type of slope integration. Terrace flush with the ground floor and then somehow retaining the slope. Here indicated with L-shaped stones. This would be the entrance to the ground floor inside the house. Presumably one would also plan an external staircase to the garden.

The plateau idea was probably meant like this:



You create a higher elevated building site, which can then only be reached by an external staircase and thus forgo the basement. Then the house would have to be a bit larger to accommodate all desired rooms.

As long as you don’t want a two-storey building with a recessed top floor in Bauhaus style, I don’t expect resistance.

No, that is not the plan.

Hey, you can really draw nicely!
So where are the cars parked with the plateau thing?
In my opinion, the plateau only makes sense if the slope isn't a full story. Had you already said how steep the slope is?