Opinion on floor plan design - house on the north slope

Hello Ali, I assume that the architect knows the budget. Until I know it, I won’t say anything here. The many windows on the north side are nice for the view. But definitely a big number. Your energy consultant will have a hard time calculating that. At least it will be expensive. I don’t even want to count the number of thermal bridges. 270m2 WF * 4k = 1080k + 10% incidental costs + garage 30k + carport 10k total 1,188k Whoever has that may also gladly take advantage of the building limits.

Hello everyone,

thank you for the input. We look forward to suggestions on what you would change.
Regarding the basement: The large room downstairs will probably first be a home gym and children's play area. However, we could also make it a [Einliegerwohnung] and have therefore planned the connections for a kitchen and bathroom.

Otherwise, we have planned the utility room with laundry chute, basement, and technical room downstairs.

In total, there are 85 sqm on the ground floor and about 80 square meters of living space on the upper floor, and I am happy to save space in the wardrobe and pantry. Constructive suggestions for improvement are welcome.

We welcome suggestions on what you would change.

You give the answer yourself, immediately afterwards:

About the basement: The large room downstairs will probably initially become a home gym and children's play area. But we could also turn it into a granny flat and have therefore planned the connections for a kitchen and bathroom.
Otherwise, we have planned the utility room with laundry chute, basement, and technical room downstairs.
In total, there are 85 sqm on the ground floor and about 80 square meters of living space upstairs, and I gladly save on the wardrobe and pantry.

Read your own words carefully, then you will realize on your own:

Constructive suggestions for improvement are welcome. :)

... and they consist of omitting expensive spaces from the planning that are "probably could initially be imagined to have some use." A lifting system for the bathroom of a potential tenant as a secondary user of a second (!) children's play area is an extra for funny money wasters, but saving on wardrobe and pantry for the core target group of the home itself. Build a house for the current family situation (with a durability horizon from now until the kids go to university) and not a five-apartment house (Unit 1: living and cooking, Unit 2: granny flat with entrance through the garden, Unit 3: children's area, Unit 4: parents' suite, Unit 5: home office) that you only use in between yourselves. No, if I look at it correctly, the most sensible improvement suggestion is a destructive one: feed the recycle bin with this fancy but useless misplanning!

Regarding the basement:

This is not a basement, otherwise this floor would be entirely or at least predominantly underground by definition, but rather a ground floor downgraded to a basement. Voluntarily moving your living spaces in the new building to the 1st and 2nd floors is really quite something alongside the other blunders of the architect. To then call the whole thing age-appropriate when you have to live on the 1st and 2nd floors, I find rather humorous. Somehow you can talk yourself into anything, from Bau(h)aus to age-appropriateness, but in the end you want to live exactly like this and then it’s fine.

But we could also make a granny flat out of it and have therefore planned the connections for a kitchen and bathroom.

or a wine tavern or a yoga studio or.

I gladly save on the cloakroom and pantry. Constructive suggestions for improvement are welcome.

or it becomes the missing cloakroom floor upstairs with a standing table for the sparkling wine in front, for larger receptions.

Constructive suggestions for improvement are welcome.

Haha, that was great. You probably mean, looking for backslappers, for the rest of the constructive criticism I just plug my ears or only answer when I’m panting and have arrived in the age-appropriate 2nd floor.

Overall, there are 85 sqm on the ground floor and about 80 square meters of living space on the upper floor

You have forgotten the basement in living quality. Overall, you have about 250 sqm of living space.

Otherwise, we have planned the utility room with laundry chute, cellar, and technical room downstairs.

That is visible. Planning valuable living space that has access to the property only as a cellar or calling it that is like casting pearls before swine. If you actually ever take a subtenant in the granny flat, he is the master of the property.

I gladly save on the wardrobe and pantry.

If you underestimate a wardrobe like that, just like the garden access from the house, then you should not be surprised that people put their jackets on the sofa and simply do not use the expensive property.

Constructive suggestions for improvement are welcome.

Either you recognize the mistakes in the answers and have the architect redo the design, who is being paid by you for it.
Or you show us through such comments that you want it exactly as it is here, and constructive suggestions become unnecessary.
For some, it also takes a few days until the message can be absorbed.

I can only advise you to add up the square meters from the plan. Unfortunately, the numbers are hard to read. But I certainly have not miscalculated by 20 m2 or even 105 m2.

I have determined 92.56 + 108.34 + 64.45. You are probably overlooking the many balconies and terraces. I evaluated them percentage-wise, like the architect.

As for other notes, especially on the slope, I will hold back for now, as I have already said. A forum is a dialogue. I do not want to invest in castles in the air.