I probably replied too quickly with #26 last night. But okay, now let's get into the details.
Imagine someone in the granny flat needs to go to the toilet from the bedroom and there are still guests around :oops:
We wanted a strict clear spatial separation with a separate entrance. Do you have any comments on that?
… that you don’t have any strict separation at all! Although the entrance door is separate from yours, the private life is not. The line of sight between the granny flat and the living/dining area goes exactly both ways. You can watch each other’s plates. :(
So I find the garage way too small. 34 sqm? What should go in there?
True. I rate the garage situation, just like the basement, as very secondary, but 34 sqm is less than the standardized 36 sqm. A fleet of vehicles like bicycles and children’s vehicles is not present.
Void? I would leave that out because it is pointless.
I love voids. Whoever can afford it today energetically and price-wise (in construction) should treat themselves to it. We also have one. If I were to build today, I would plan my skylight differently so that I do not consume significantly more energy mass than I can economically justify. We are currently experiencing a turning point. I am always surprised that young parents today do not want to improve the “other life,” the difficult future of their own children. But just mentioning this here because it also needs to be addressed!!!! But no further discussion needed here now! All good.
Gallery overlooking the ground floor
A gallery view from an upper floor corridor is very nice but also has no practical use. It’s simply beautiful, spacious and has that certain something.
A void should not just be a hole in the intermediate ceiling, but must definitely be planned…. *
Windows in the hole now are not exactly what creates a cozy atmosphere in bedrooms.
Dining table shifted: No special reason. Probably so half of the guests get the gallery view upwards?
…*in this case one has full view from the dining area to the dressing room. Is that desired? A normally minded person would be (naked) ashamed in the dressing room… imagine this: men’s or teenagers’ group at the dining table in the evening, the woman wants to go to bed… she stands, made-up removed and in a negligee, on display… No, that’s not okay. The same applies to the left children's room. Why should the child watch TV obliquely downward, which is not age-appropriate?
We want to bring this spatial feeling from the ground floor upstairs. We currently already live in a maisonette apartment with a gallery – we love it incredibly.
As already said: spatial feeling must be cleverly planned and not clumsily cut as a rectangle into the intermediate floor. Comfort, privacy and personal development should have top priority when building a house. At least for a family where many developments still take place.
Ground floor staircase and wall: We had the idea to install a large viewing window over the stairs, so that you can look through from the hallway. Does that fix this point?
No. It’s about the ground floor and the line of sight from the entrance. This time it is not about the view from the upper floor to the ground floor.
Bedroom -> dressing room -> bathroom, right?
No. The bedroom should not be a passage room. One disturbs the other if you constantly have to turn on the light and the other is still sleeping. You do walk back and forth a bit in the morning anyway.
(By the way, this is also a point regarding the void: if it’s bright downstairs, it’s also bright upstairs, so definitely not suitable for sleeping rooms.)
[*]2x children's rooms with adjoining bathrooms
[*]1x playroom (initially home cinema, later converted) over the garage
Cinema/playroom on the right side of the plan? And why is one children's room several sqm larger than the other?
I also find the corner with the kitchen weird... a door next to an open entrance.... wall stubs, which usually carry beams, without escape…
The construction already looks very odd from the inside. A door next to a room opening, room separators (wall protrusions that are not aligned) – what happens with the wall stub in the ground floor living/dining room above in the upper floor void? What is it supposed to be good for?
one can also overlook that. It is actually intended to be used in the next few years for parents-in-law and later possibly for an au pair and afterwards for the first child moving out. So 100% family-related and therefore it also gets a nice little spot.
Is the apartment actually suitable for the parents-in-law? Do they have parking space for the car? Storage space? Place for a washing machine?
Air conditioning of various rooms
Also here I would reconsider whether a sensible arrangement of many windows combined with economic efficiency could be better. In my opinion, a fundamental rethinking must take place here. We live on credit and destroy, use far too much energy…. A heat pump and photovoltaic will not be a free ticket for avoidable energy consumption.
Do you otherwise consider the staircase completely out of place and should everything be reconsidered (impact on all floors)?
Yes.
scribble something shapeless on paper in 30 seconds?
Planning is not that easy that you can come up with something usable in 30 seconds.
I would give the architect fewer details...
I would definitely advise against having a house of this financial size built by a general contractor (GC)!
There are always cases here, a TE, Hotzenplotz or RHotzenplotz is a very good example, the experience that a GC is much too overwhelmed to deliver such houses of this size without defects. They can do standard well in manageable scope. They can also handle some upgrades well… but with an immense void combined with the window front, there will probably be trouble that is not visible but appears only during construction and living. Something does not fit here. I am not an expert to define this more precisely. I can only say that all the years here I have only read about such problems in this combination.
As a mirror of my suspicion serves the design. GC architect? Is it your amateur plan that was redrawn cleanly? No objections because the client spends good money and might be useful for the GC in advertising…? This is how it looks to me.
If I understand correctly, the staircase has a horizontal length of 16 x 18.9 cm = 302.4 cm.
How would you arrange or build the staircase instead?
I also immediately question the ceiling heights with these room sizes. Thus, a staircase would of course also have to be longer if the ceiling height is adjusted.
Can you or anyone sketch me an alternative proposal with the current conditions? How would you orient/divide the rooms?
As already said: information and site plan are missing.
You also are not in the right subgroup: in the floor plan discussions you will find a questionnaire.