Planning driveway and carport

Hello!

After the construction of our semi-detached house has now progressed up to the plastering stage, we are starting with the exterior planning. Unfortunately, this is proving to be more difficult than expected We have so many questions

First of all, something about the plot. There is almost 1.60m between the street and terrace level. Our right-hand neighbor has a garage directly on the boundary (unfortunately not made of stone, but sheet metal). We want to slope the driveway up until we reach terrace level. On the garage side, we also have the kitchen (small floor-to-ceiling window), through which we also want to go out onto the driveway.





Our rough plan. A light well made of L-shaped stones will still be installed at the front right basement window, then a 1m high wall will be erected over the entire width of the house along the street front. After that, we want to fill up the area in front of the house. So far so good. The interesting part is the driveway.

We want to set up a carport to the right of our house, about 3.5m wide and 6.5m long. Directly adjacent would then be the neighbor's garage. We want to have L-shaped stones installed there as well. The shell builder could probably do that for us right away when installing the inspection shaft. But.... how will it be with the carport???? Can the posts be placed directly on the L-shaped stones at the garage? Or do foundations have to be laid? How should we best prepare this now so that the carport builder doesn’t have to tear out all the L-shaped stones later?!

Also, the architect’s solution for the driveway probably won’t work like that. He was probably too optimistic
We will probably need a sloped driveway instead. How could we best do that so that we can enter (without many steps in front of the kitchen door)?

Not so easy...

I'm not that deep into the expertise, I leave that to others - but just because the architect can climb up there with his SUV, that is anything but realistic for a 'normal' Pampersbomber...

morning, sorry for posting my very personal opinion without supporting the desired scenario:

Do you really want to fill in the poor house at the front? Then all the fuss with the expensive L-concrete elements, the light wells, the earthworks, and not least the effort with the driveway. Now you still have more or less fully functional living space in the basement (I don’t know what it looks like inside), but once everything is filled in, the darkening and moisture risk begins. When rooms are placed - even partially - underground, the room climate always changes towards "bunker". That already starts with the basement floor level, when the rooms are only 1m deep in the ground and have fully above-ground windows. I know this from my own living experience. There everything was insulated and sealed and still was not fully functional living space.

The street level according to the photos is no problem, a solid, 30-50cm high plinth with an iron fence on top would, in my opinion, sufficiently separate it from the street. Behind that then the front garden, which can well be a bit lower than the street, perhaps laid deeper in 1 or 2 shallow terraces as a so-called sunken garden. This was very popular with our affluent ancestors, sunken gardens were always very appreciated because of their own microclimate. Then you would have a great view from the big basement windows into the local flower and plant world instead of surrounded by filled-in light wells.

The garage could - as with the neighbor - be built at street level, with a slope toward the street as steep as possible without major L-supports and fill-ins. But then you’d have to bite the bullet that the access would have to be over the unwanted steps inside the garage through the kitchen window. But to avoid the steps alone to undertake all the other effort ..?

Just a suggestion, if you don’t like it just ignore it …

Best regards