So....
I have made a drawing again and looked at access routes today.
An access to the garage/carport with 3-3.5m is, in my opinion, completely sufficient. Most access routes are 2.5-3m. Sure, it’s more comfortable if it’s 5m, but well... in the end, it’s just a car...
In the attached version, I moved the house 1.5m, meaning we would have 5.5m to the street. This should allow for a parking space including garbage bins in a decent enclosure, e.g. with wood (which we also have on the bay window and as a canopy), and there would still be enough greenery in front of the kitchen window (southwest corner of the house, about 2.5m wide) so you wouldn’t be looking at a parked car.
In the attached plan, there would now be a 5m wide and 6m long garage, so suitable for only one car. The reason is simple: if it were 6m, the driveway would also have to be wider to make it work, but then the front door would get in the way. The advantage here: the wide garage offers lots of space besides a parking space for bikes etc. At the end of the garage, I would put a door to be able to walk through to the garden. Behind the garage there would still be 6.3m space, so a shed could be placed there. Another option would be to move the garage 1.5m further back, but then it would get tight behind it; however, you would have a line if you want to intercept the north side of the house after 1.5m with a wall/L-blocks.
In my calculation, the height of the foundation of the garage/carport with a garage/carport height of 2.6m is at 204.3-204.4m => about 1.1-1.2m height difference would have to be bridged to the street. Since there would still be 2.5-3m space for the sidewalk/driveway, you can easily plan a ramp there. Possibly the first 1-3m in the yard would also have a level area to the rest of the yard before it slopes down. That has to be modeled in the end or discussed with the landscape gardener. It’s possible. With a planned 3.5-4m driveway, you could even create a 50 cm planting strip for some greenery to the neighbor (e.g. hornbeam). I think that would be feasible, so it wouldn’t become a narrow tunnel. Or simply a nice privacy fence.
Advantage of the garage: The garage could have a reinforced wall and retain the terrain.
In both versions, about 1.5m would remain between the house wall and garage/carport. The garage would exceed the finished floor height by 1.5m. There are no windows there anyway, except the window in the guest bathroom. Otherwise, it’s a technical room without windows.
You could easily plant some greenery on the 1.5m.
So that’s my idea...
What do you think?
