D0ppler
2020-04-15 13:06:45
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Hello everyone,
Since summer/autumn 2019, we have been planning our semi-detached house, which we will place on a 288 sqm plot in a new development area. The neighboring house is not yet built but is marked on the plans. Because we have good contact with each other, data and planning are regularly exchanged.
Our semi-detached house will be approximately 8.70x10.60m and will have an extension (bay window/winter garden).
We would be happy if the current floor plans could be commented on and tips regarding windows and ideas for terrace planning given.
We are also still undecided about the placement of a tool/bike shed.
Thank you very much in advance!
Development Plan/Restrictions
Plot size: 288 sqm
Slope: yes, about 2.5 meters within the plot... max. 1.5m within the building envelope
Floor area ratio: 0.35
Floor space index: 0.7
Building envelope, building line, and boundary: Building envelope begins 2.5 m south of the northern street and is about 12 m wide and 12.50 m long. There is an obligation to attach to the semi-detached house plot located to the east. Number of parking spaces: 2
The plot has a kind of "tube" in the south where a garage could be built, but we prefer to use this space as garden area. There is a slope on the plot from northwest to southeast.
Orientation: almost north-south; entrance to the house from the reference street in the north and garden in the south
Other requirements: Roof shape (gable roof), roof pitch (34 degrees), and eave height (max. 4.75 m).
Client Requirements
Style, roof shape, building type: classical-modern, gable roof, semi-detached house
Basement, floors: ground floor as a full floor and upper floor with knee wall 1.40m
Number of persons, age: 2 adults (mid-30s) and 2 children (1 and 5)
Room requirements on the ground floor: kitchen, dining area, living room, study (for occasional home office), WC + shower
Room requirements on the upper floor: bathroom, master bedroom, 2 children's rooms (preferably similar in size)
Office: home office
Guest overnight stays per year: fewer than 5 per year for 1-3 days
Open or closed architecture: open as possible on the ground floor
Open kitchen, cooking island: open kitchen with "cooking island," a counter with 2 seats should be attached to the cooking island on the dining area side
Number of dining seats: 6
Fireplace: yes!
Music/stereo wall: little need, will be integrated in the TV area
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: carport (6x3) on the west side. In front toward the street, one parking space
Utility garden, greenhouse: We plan a raised bed but it will not be a large farm.
Further wishes/special features/daily routine, also reasons why this or that should or should not be:
It was clear from the beginning of planning that the children should have the largest rooms in the house. The parents’ bedroom should be as small and functional as possible.
On the ground floor, our main focus was on an open kitchen-dining area because our family life will most likely take place mainly there and in summer continuing towards the garden.
For cost reasons, we decided against a basement...we hope to get by with the attic, the pantry under the stairs, and a tool shed in the garden. Decluttering is required.
House Design
Who created the plan: We had very exact ideas which were implemented by the architect of our prefabricated house builder.
What do you particularly like? Why?
We like the large children’s rooms and on the ground floor the many windows facing southwest in the bay/winter garden that make our main living area very bright.
What do you not like? Why? Carport in front of the kitchen window... but from our point of view, it cannot be avoided as we want as much garden as possible behind the house.
Price estimate according to architect/planner: 335 K (turnkey)
Personal price limit for the house, incl. equipment: approx. 380 K
Preferred heating technology: air-water heat pump, underfloor heating on both floors
If you have to do without, which details/extensions
-can you do without: nothing
-can you not do without: office/guest room, extension
Why did the design turn out as it is now?
The current design was created after several hours of our own considerations and the extremely friendly and always competent input of our specialist advisor. We shifted the utility room and guest bathroom to one side in order to get the largest possible guest room. Also, planning an additional shower was mandatory.
Our fireplace must be included...finding a suitable place for the chimney was not easy but we now believe we have succeeded very well. However, this required adjustments in the attic again.
We like the floor plan very much as it is. Among other things, we are glad about the fairly large dimensions of the house because during the planning phase we often stumbled over very corridor-like floor plans mostly with 3 floors. It is of course still oriented lengthwise... but you probably understand what I mean.
What is the most important/fundamental question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
Are there serious mistakes in the floor plan that we don’t see anymore because of our love for it? What would you recommend differently?
How/where would you place the terrace/tool shed? The plot falls from northwest to southeast.
I hope I haven’t forgotten anything important... spent quite a bit of time on everything ^^
We are already looking forward to your feedback and thank you for the time invested!
Best regards!!
Since summer/autumn 2019, we have been planning our semi-detached house, which we will place on a 288 sqm plot in a new development area. The neighboring house is not yet built but is marked on the plans. Because we have good contact with each other, data and planning are regularly exchanged.
Our semi-detached house will be approximately 8.70x10.60m and will have an extension (bay window/winter garden).
We would be happy if the current floor plans could be commented on and tips regarding windows and ideas for terrace planning given.
We are also still undecided about the placement of a tool/bike shed.
Thank you very much in advance!
Development Plan/Restrictions
Plot size: 288 sqm
Slope: yes, about 2.5 meters within the plot... max. 1.5m within the building envelope
Floor area ratio: 0.35
Floor space index: 0.7
Building envelope, building line, and boundary: Building envelope begins 2.5 m south of the northern street and is about 12 m wide and 12.50 m long. There is an obligation to attach to the semi-detached house plot located to the east. Number of parking spaces: 2
The plot has a kind of "tube" in the south where a garage could be built, but we prefer to use this space as garden area. There is a slope on the plot from northwest to southeast.
Orientation: almost north-south; entrance to the house from the reference street in the north and garden in the south
Other requirements: Roof shape (gable roof), roof pitch (34 degrees), and eave height (max. 4.75 m).
Client Requirements
Style, roof shape, building type: classical-modern, gable roof, semi-detached house
Basement, floors: ground floor as a full floor and upper floor with knee wall 1.40m
Number of persons, age: 2 adults (mid-30s) and 2 children (1 and 5)
Room requirements on the ground floor: kitchen, dining area, living room, study (for occasional home office), WC + shower
Room requirements on the upper floor: bathroom, master bedroom, 2 children's rooms (preferably similar in size)
Office: home office
Guest overnight stays per year: fewer than 5 per year for 1-3 days
Open or closed architecture: open as possible on the ground floor
Open kitchen, cooking island: open kitchen with "cooking island," a counter with 2 seats should be attached to the cooking island on the dining area side
Number of dining seats: 6
Fireplace: yes!
Music/stereo wall: little need, will be integrated in the TV area
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: carport (6x3) on the west side. In front toward the street, one parking space
Utility garden, greenhouse: We plan a raised bed but it will not be a large farm.
Further wishes/special features/daily routine, also reasons why this or that should or should not be:
It was clear from the beginning of planning that the children should have the largest rooms in the house. The parents’ bedroom should be as small and functional as possible.
On the ground floor, our main focus was on an open kitchen-dining area because our family life will most likely take place mainly there and in summer continuing towards the garden.
For cost reasons, we decided against a basement...we hope to get by with the attic, the pantry under the stairs, and a tool shed in the garden. Decluttering is required.
House Design
Who created the plan: We had very exact ideas which were implemented by the architect of our prefabricated house builder.
What do you particularly like? Why?
We like the large children’s rooms and on the ground floor the many windows facing southwest in the bay/winter garden that make our main living area very bright.
What do you not like? Why? Carport in front of the kitchen window... but from our point of view, it cannot be avoided as we want as much garden as possible behind the house.
Price estimate according to architect/planner: 335 K (turnkey)
Personal price limit for the house, incl. equipment: approx. 380 K
Preferred heating technology: air-water heat pump, underfloor heating on both floors
If you have to do without, which details/extensions
-can you do without: nothing
-can you not do without: office/guest room, extension
Why did the design turn out as it is now?
The current design was created after several hours of our own considerations and the extremely friendly and always competent input of our specialist advisor. We shifted the utility room and guest bathroom to one side in order to get the largest possible guest room. Also, planning an additional shower was mandatory.
Our fireplace must be included...finding a suitable place for the chimney was not easy but we now believe we have succeeded very well. However, this required adjustments in the attic again.
We like the floor plan very much as it is. Among other things, we are glad about the fairly large dimensions of the house because during the planning phase we often stumbled over very corridor-like floor plans mostly with 3 floors. It is of course still oriented lengthwise... but you probably understand what I mean.
What is the most important/fundamental question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
Are there serious mistakes in the floor plan that we don’t see anymore because of our love for it? What would you recommend differently?
How/where would you place the terrace/tool shed? The plot falls from northwest to southeast.
I hope I haven’t forgotten anything important... spent quite a bit of time on everything ^^
We are already looking forward to your feedback and thank you for the time invested!
Best regards!!