friday82
2020-12-09 22:20:59
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Hello dear forum,
I would like to use your collective intelligence. We have the problem that the neighbor will be building on the west side of the property, so we have to be a bit more creative. Otherwise, we would have just placed the house as a rectangle farther back on the lot. The next challenge is that it is a north-facing lot.
Regarding the most important questions
Development plan/restrictions
Lot size: 800 sqm
Slope: flat
Floor area ratio: 0.7
Floor space index: development plan allows 2 full floors
Building window, building line and boundary: marked in light blue, 3m distance from the neighbor
Edge development: allowed up to 9m
Number of parking spaces: 2 (location still unclear, either beside or behind the house)
Number of floors: 2
Roof type: flat roof
Architectural style: modern
Orientation: see site plan
Maximum heights/limits: 2 full floors, neighbor has a pitched roof and attic converted (very high)
Further requirements
Requirements of the builders
Architectural style, roof type, building type: modern
Basement, floors: no, 2 floors
Number of people, age: 2, 30-40
Room requirements on ground floor and upper floor: living, dining, kitchen, utility, office, guest WC, child 1, child 2, sleeping, dressing room, parents’ bathroom, children’s bathroom (approx. 160 sqm living area)
Office: family use or home office?: home
Number of overnight guests per year: 5
Open or closed architecture: unknown
Conservative or modern construction: modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: kitchen is schematically included, should be a compromise
Number of dining seats: 4-6
Fireplace: yes
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: not planned yet, either on the west side or behind the house
Utility garden, greenhouse: no
Further wishes/special features/daily routine, also reasons why this or that should or should not be
House design
Who designed it:
For now, ourselves, our planners are very busy and only deliver standard designs
What do you particularly like? Why?
What do you dislike? Why? Bedroom still too large
Price estimate according to architect/planner: too expensive :)
Personal price limit for the house, including equipment:
Preferred heating technology: air heat pump, we also had a geothermal system offered, but it should not make a big difference anymore (efficiency), so the additional cost (approx. 15k without subsidies) is not worth it?!
If you have to do without, which details/extensions
Functionally, it should be like this. The fireplace could be discarded if necessary. We have sliding/lifting elements in our current draft... but since the window fronts have become smaller now, we took them out for now. (We have 3 sliding/lifting elements in the calculation). The slanted wall is optional... just an idea.
Why has the design turned out as it is now? eg
Standard design from the planner? Neighbor is building on the west side, starting from a simple rectangle. All living spaces facing front, service rooms in the back, entrance on the side.
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
I would like to have general feedback so we don’t build nonsense. So far we have completed a condominium, but no house – where everything is really flexible and there are actually too many possibilities. The bedroom currently feels too large. But we also want to have a washing machine on the upper floor (so that clothes don’t always have to be carried through the house). Perhaps laundry can be installed there. The house at the front of the plot should protect us from the neighbor’s views, he also has many windows on his east side (our west side).
Thank you very much!

I would like to use your collective intelligence. We have the problem that the neighbor will be building on the west side of the property, so we have to be a bit more creative. Otherwise, we would have just placed the house as a rectangle farther back on the lot. The next challenge is that it is a north-facing lot.
Regarding the most important questions
Development plan/restrictions
Lot size: 800 sqm
Slope: flat
Floor area ratio: 0.7
Floor space index: development plan allows 2 full floors
Building window, building line and boundary: marked in light blue, 3m distance from the neighbor
Edge development: allowed up to 9m
Number of parking spaces: 2 (location still unclear, either beside or behind the house)
Number of floors: 2
Roof type: flat roof
Architectural style: modern
Orientation: see site plan
Maximum heights/limits: 2 full floors, neighbor has a pitched roof and attic converted (very high)
Further requirements
Requirements of the builders
Architectural style, roof type, building type: modern
Basement, floors: no, 2 floors
Number of people, age: 2, 30-40
Room requirements on ground floor and upper floor: living, dining, kitchen, utility, office, guest WC, child 1, child 2, sleeping, dressing room, parents’ bathroom, children’s bathroom (approx. 160 sqm living area)
Office: family use or home office?: home
Number of overnight guests per year: 5
Open or closed architecture: unknown
Conservative or modern construction: modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: kitchen is schematically included, should be a compromise
Number of dining seats: 4-6
Fireplace: yes
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: not planned yet, either on the west side or behind the house
Utility garden, greenhouse: no
Further wishes/special features/daily routine, also reasons why this or that should or should not be
House design
Who designed it:
For now, ourselves, our planners are very busy and only deliver standard designs
What do you particularly like? Why?
What do you dislike? Why? Bedroom still too large
Price estimate according to architect/planner: too expensive :)
Personal price limit for the house, including equipment:
Preferred heating technology: air heat pump, we also had a geothermal system offered, but it should not make a big difference anymore (efficiency), so the additional cost (approx. 15k without subsidies) is not worth it?!
If you have to do without, which details/extensions
Functionally, it should be like this. The fireplace could be discarded if necessary. We have sliding/lifting elements in our current draft... but since the window fronts have become smaller now, we took them out for now. (We have 3 sliding/lifting elements in the calculation). The slanted wall is optional... just an idea.
Why has the design turned out as it is now? eg
Standard design from the planner? Neighbor is building on the west side, starting from a simple rectangle. All living spaces facing front, service rooms in the back, entrance on the side.
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
I would like to have general feedback so we don’t build nonsense. So far we have completed a condominium, but no house – where everything is really flexible and there are actually too many possibilities. The bedroom currently feels too large. But we also want to have a washing machine on the upper floor (so that clothes don’t always have to be carried through the house). Perhaps laundry can be installed there. The house at the front of the plot should protect us from the neighbor’s views, he also has many windows on his east side (our west side).
Thank you very much!