Single-family house as a terraced middle house on a slope - design

is there anything against the kitchen in the north?

You need the kitchen close to the terrace rather than close to a living room.
In the summer evenings, you sit on the terrace instead of in the living room: you need the kitchen nearby -> cocktails, grill, fridge. You carry the salad and coffee from the kitchen out to the terrace, not from the living room...
You very rarely go from the TV (living room) to the terrace and back ;)
In the living room, you usually stay in the evening, that is when the sun sets. Before that, you are active at the dining table or not in the house at all. So you don’t need sunlight/windows in the living room, at least not if you have to choose.

Regards

So you don't need sunlight/windows in the living room, at least not if you have to choose.


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But this decision must be made by the OP! What is more important to him – the shorter route between the kitchen and garden/terrace (in the first draft, the kitchen is also in the north) or the view? How can he imagine his workflows and lifestyle? Does he prefer to sit on the couch reading all day on weekends and therefore also need proper, natural lighting during the day?
Would a gallery even be used if you might need to keep an eye on the oven or the child in the living room at the same time?

Based on MY personal preferences and my length of stay in the kitchen or on the couch, in this plot configuration I would (admittedly reluctantly) rather accept the longer route between kitchen and terrace than place the couch in the darker area.
Perhaps the kitchen could be moved to the center of the room and a storage room created in the north? Of course, that has its drawbacks, but ultimately the OP must weigh those.

Maybe it is also imaginable to bring reading and enjoying the view from the couch into the dining area by installing three-quarter-height windows there and running a window seat along the reveal instead of window sills?

But the OP has to make exactly this decision! What is more important to him?

He can do that :)
Decisions cannot be made here in the forum, and these are only ideas that are outlined, because in my opinion this room layout makes more sense in daily routine than his own. It is a rough sketch that still has much more potential.
What I find very original (if I remember correctly?): the woman is reading while the child would need to be supervised ;)

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Nope, you remember it wrong. I wrote "man," so it can also be the man who occasionally watches what his kid is up to... :cool:

After looking at the draft again, which still appeals to us, but the mentioned disadvantages do outweigh it, or maybe we are still looking for a solution with the bathroom and bedrooms on one level, we have worked on 2 alternatives ourselves.

The external dimensions are fixed, so based on the architect’s drawing, we started to think it through ourselves with pen and paper, similar to how always does so well. If we like any of those proposals, we would discuss them again with the architect and ask him to "make something out of it, as a professional."

On the ground floor, we now have all the bedrooms with the bathroom. Thus, the north entrance is downgraded to an absolute side entrance, and guests coming from the north, including Santa Claus, have to go down the stairs or via the fireplace. We are currently assuming French balconies and floor-to-ceiling windows on the south side for the plan.

For the basement, I have attached 2 variants, as we are still skeptical whether the approx. 9m to the back towards the north in the living room will be bright enough; therefore, we have one variant with the living room reaching the north wall. The 2nd variant then has a technology room behind it. This naturally reduces the space in the dining/living area, but that should be sufficient with 180sqm.

For the basement windows for the living area, there are solutions that do not look like typical basement light wells and are as large as possible. Unfortunately, a light well is not an option because the slope continues upward towards the north, and we could have problems with heavy rain?

We tried to keep the fireplace centered; the architect’s proposal pleased us even though we had not wished for or discussed it that way. But here too, I could well imagine an interior wall as a solution.

The advantage we see here after further consideration is of course more space for living area because a WC with shower or guest WC would be eliminated. Which, as noted by [USER=25027]@Maria16, certainly has its charm in terms of plastering technique.

On the one hand, you have an architect: you could simply communicate to them the wish to have all bedrooms on the ground floor plus a side entrance door. They should be able to implement these wishes better.
You have identified a problem with placing the staircase and entrance on the side: this results in a long hallway, which does not necessarily make a house a winner. An architect can do this better. At least the good ones ;) In addition, they should also have dealt with alternative options for daylight. On the one hand, you can install basement windows and daylight lamps in a row across the entire room width, on the other hand, there are technologies nowadays that channel daylight into a basement room, for example google ecodesign... daylight lighting systems. Or heliobus...
With the help of mirrors, the light is amplified. Keep in mind, the living room is not a room without daylight but a darker corner in a large room.

I would therefore solve the daylight problem more individually and would also favor a generous floor plan without rooms lined up in a row :)
Maybe even an open space up to the ground floor/roof including a window would be desirable, which has the advantage of actually reducing your living area. Such an open space can also be completely separated (walled in) on the upper floor.
Now the most obvious idea comes to mind: simply keep the living area open to above :)

Greetings