Here too, I sniff out massive resistance to advice.
And even though the original poster has already said that the room layout will remain as is: I currently have a pantry in the south. A situation that gives me the daily association in summer of what it would be like to whip an architect to the bone (and I am not normally violent).
Furthermore, the grebes from Maurern forgot the blind in my southern pantry (the client's instruction for this 4-unit house was: no blinds for the pantry in the north! What came out of it was: no blinds in the pantries! Unfortunately, the ceiling was already on when the client noticed... the pantry in the apartment above me then got a blind).
Long story short: in this room I can also do infusions in summer. Even in the apartment above me with the blind-equipped pantry, you cannot get rid of the cozy climate in summer.
Ergo: you can’t store food in such rooms. Total nonsense.
After living in the apartment for two years, I moved my pantry to the storage room in the basement and now have to run down from the kitchen on the ground floor every time to get something. Total disaster!
And I tried everything to keep the room, which was declared a pantry, somewhat cool:
Louvered blinds (but between window and blind the sun heats up terribly), extra fly screens with silver coating, which is supposed to reflect the sun’s rays and thereby lower the temperature in the room (supposed to!!!! and that’s how it stays) up to the only option: open windows overnight and first thing in the morning close windows and lower blind, door to the hallway open (to allow air exchange between the cooler hallway and the hot pantry). We still do this, even though we have moved the food as mentioned. It turns sauna atmosphere into only "quite warm." Under no circumstances can you store potatoes, onions, or just vegetables in such a room.
By the way, not even in the blind-protected pantry in the apartment above me. That one also always becomes cozy warm in summer despite consistently lowered blinds.
A PANTRY IN THE SOUTH IS TOTAL NONSENSE!
A planner who consistently designs and allows such a thing does not deserve to be called one.
Put the pantry somewhere else if the kitchen has to remain as is, but where it is now is nonsense. You won’t be able to use it like this.
The entire ground floor is one of the worst designs I have ever seen. But man’s will is his heaven. The original poster wants to stick to it. Let him be happy that way.
Overall, the entire design fits the position of the pantry and can therefore be labeled with the attribute with which I titled the pantry’s position in capital letters.
Only I sometimes really wonder what kind of people become planners here (I don’t want to believe it’s really a real, genuine architect...).