Please look critically at our floor plan draft

What do you fear about "solid house with bricks"? I didn't want to start a fundamental discussion about solid house or prefab house. My wife would prefer a solid house because of the cold storage capacity in summer.

Oh, pardon – I had forgotten the quotation marks or the smiley there. I "feared" exactly such emotional motivation, whose factual basis only partially applies. With the decrease in wall thickness (as long as you build with ETICS, the wall thickness is usually roughly divided in half into inner structural shell and outer insulation shell, i.e., it is not really "solid" homogeneously) the differences in the properties of the wall structures/materials (and thus the "contribution" of the wall to the climate) become relative.

Maximum heights/limits: total height max. 518.80

This is an absolute height value above sea level and is useless to us without knowing the reference height (= +/- 0.00), since the other half of the information is missing.

Roof shape: preferably gable roof with dormer

In your design / reference house that is a cross-gable.

- We don't like the roof slopes if they are too pronounced at the edge of the house.

Does that mean the angles at the eaves should be softened by knee walls (commonly aka "Drempel")?

Height may be 9.40 m. No knee wall, but rather raised knee wall (>1.60 m ?) so that roof slopes do not interfere.

Attached are the revised floor plans. What do you think?

- Sliding doors now separate the kitchen and living/dining area. This way, you can more or less have both (open and closed kitchen).
- The staircase can now be long enough.

Height may be 9.40 m.

So 9.40 m ridge height, but measured from where?

No knee wall, but higher knee wall (>1.60 m ?) so that roof slopes do not interfere.

If the development plan only limits the ridge height and not the eaves height, an unlimited knee wall is often possible, but one should check.

I find the living room far too narrow, if I read it correctly, only 3.68m? I think it should be at least 4 m so that the living/dining room doesn’t feel like a long tube. I suggest reducing the width of the study (e.g., to 3m), that would already provide the necessary centimeters...

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