Prefabricated house: first architectural planning and then selection of prefab house provider, or the other way around?

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wiltshire

2025-08-14 12:00:13
  • #1
The first question concerns life priorities. How do you want to live? For this, four questions are of utmost importance: 1. How does a day go that is a particularly good day? 2. Which routines are frequent, which routines are important, which routines arise from hobbies, inclinations, peculiarities? 3. What appeals to us aesthetically in a special way? 4. What role does our "ego" play in the construction – what do we actually want to satisfy there? Dealing with these questions is not easy even for people who have lived together for a long time. The first answers are usually incomplete and do not reveal what really lies behind. However, if one has a high degree of clarity about this, it becomes clear whether the goal can be achieved with a standard or whether individual planning is better. With individual planning, the first step to the architect is much smarter and also logical in sequence. When obtaining offers, I would visit local carpentry companies and include them if the impression is good. With standard planning, you do not need a separate architect but can base it on an existing standard with a provider (but then cannot change much). Individual planning is generally more expensive, as most people add their wishes together. However, it can also be cheaper if consistent reduction to the essentials is the focus during implementation and things are intelligently simplified. Unfortunately, most people interested in building start out thinking in terms of rooms, square meters, and costs and develop their wishes accordingly. They deal more with the "what" than with the "why." In doing so, they orient themselves on learned behavior and transferred wishes: "that's how it's done (today)."
 

ypg

2025-08-14 13:02:33
  • #2

There is often a style prescribed in the development plan, often for regional reasons. Here I also see an indirect one, namely specified by the (mentioned by you) 33-degree roof pitch. A town villa is not desired, nor a flat-roofed house à la Bauhaus. Through the roof pitch, you have the requirement to build regionally. Apparently, a different development plan with a higher? roof pitch applies opposite you. In our northern region, roofs are regionally 45 degrees or even steeper.

Well, similarly, whether you want to build conservatively/traditionally or modern/contemporary. Life and those wanting to build are very individual, including age; however, there are also many slim 30-year-olds who want to build conservatively, while 60+ often like it modern. This then shows in open living, flowing transitions, and large window areas, whereas the conservative often has a corridor dividing the space and necessarily large windows.

I assume that this was only roughly calculated based on the sqm and the offered BLB quality (building series)?

If I look at this here, (I always read from top to bottom, so I also immediately opened the street on Google Maps and walked along to get an impression): classic single-family house, single story, apparently all with the same roof pitch.
Then I read this:

And then this:

and I immediately wonder how you want to implement the two-story structure with a 33-degree roof pitch.
And then, when I see your design, I enter an absurd thought area, namely that there is a roof shape here that is very suitable for living, but which you laypeople do not see at all, almost even ignore, because as a builder you think that two stories only means one thing, namely two identical stories, facade-wise like a town villa is.

The development plan states right at the front the maximum height of your house, namely 6.60 m for two stories.
Further back, the roof pitch is differentiated for one- or two-story buildings.

And that brings us to your question, since your currently favored house according to the development plan is not feasible at all:
Definitely go to an architect who must calculate your house in order to make the best out of the requirements.
 

ypg

2025-08-14 13:09:22
  • #3
And then: the Balance 300 is a townhouse that is neither desired in this residential area, nor can the floor plan be transferred to an allowed house.
 

Gänseblümchen7

2025-08-14 13:39:39
  • #4
Thanks first of all for your effort!



The development plan specifies the maximum eaves height, not the total height of the house, at 6.60. Therefore, we (and also the seller at Weber saw no problems and dealt thoroughly with our development plan) think that this should fit without problems. However, we are also open to being proven wrong if we have misread this, and we are also aware that sellers are not infallible ;-)

For clarification: the plot is located directly on the border of this development plan; next door it already looks much more difficult. In the area of our development plan, there are very similar houses (2 full stories plus gable roof).
 

Gänseblümchen7

2025-08-14 13:40:50
  • #5


Why are you so sure that an urban villa is not desired?
 

Papierturm

2025-08-14 14:40:10
  • #6
First of all, I will write more about the actual post later:
We apparently have a similar development plan. The thread starter wrote about 6.6m eaves side. That works for two stories if the development plan actually means the eaves side there.

(Our specification is 6m eaves side, gable roof up to max. 30°. Even with the obligation to have full stories. By reducing the clear room height to 250cm, we were just able to comply with the 6m eaves side.)

PS: Our house will not win any beauty contests. But neither will any house there in that area.

I agree with the rest.
 

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