Single-family house floor plan approx. 180m2 - Please provide feedback

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Hello everyone, We want to build a two-story building on an old garage on the property (old commercial building of my grandparents) in Austria (the foundation slab is there and statically buildable). The base area is 11.08x8.22m. Since we have a hall attached on two sides, no windows are possible on the two sides (north and east) on the ground floor (except for an elevated window opening above the dining table). The wall facing south borders my grandparents' garden. Therefore, I don’t want windows here either, so as not to look into a “foreign” garden. Except at the entrance, here I would add a slanted wall, and the window looks into a small light shaft. The plan was drawn by me and is now to be handed over to a planner for the submission plan. But I would be interested in your opinion in advance. Further information: You can access the already built hall through the utility room. Everything technical goes into the hall. The wall with glass surfaces on the ground floor faces west and the garden. The entrance is only possible from the side via the garden. On the 1st floor, the view to the east/north/west is amazing, so we have planned large windows here. This would be the bedroom and office. The terrace is to be covered with an approx. 1.70 m deep concrete slab that extends up to the entrance. The area where you sit will then be additionally covered with glass so that you are more protected and yet still get light. If more information is missing, please let me know. Otherwise, many thanks in advance for your thoughts [ATTACH alt="IMG_3971.jpeg"]89656[/ATTACH]

1st floor with actual exterior wall and north marked

Here I have hopefully marked it a little more clearly.

Thanks, yes. And why is the terrace now bricked in? Or what is that black line supposed to be? What kind of material is that? And the garden is in the west? Where exactly is it so that it can merge with it? And why is everything with windows still darkened by a 1.70 concrete depth? That is „incomprehensible“. The window in the north is supposed to be just a light strip... no light will get into the house anymore. Not even through the roof structure or a light court.

This is an exciting project! Of great importance here as well are the exact measurements, especially of the furniture used, as well as clarity about whether these will be used as such, for example TV, seating area with table, etc. What are the planned floor heights, or am I overlooking that? I generally find the huge window areas stylish, but it must be clear that this will result in a financially costly solution to make it really stylish. There have been similar implementations here in the forum in the past. Personally, I (by now) no longer like sliding doors because they are not quite as easy to open. Therefore, I would also consider a "regular" exit to the garden and perhaps make those large panes fixed glass. But this is just a small suggestion in the context of brainstorming. As the living room is drawn, you might not want to sit there after all, so this should be adjusted to reality. On the upper floor, at first glance, I would not like the fact that before going to bed or right after getting up I am more or less standing in my office (and thus always have any professional matters possibly present right in front of me). It makes sense to be able to exclude the professional part from everyday life.

The window in the north is supposed to be just a strip of light..

I wonder how tall this enclosing building is so that the strip of light on the ground floor of the new building still provides any light at all? The neighboring building can't be just 2 meters high, can it? Maybe some photos, elevation sections of the buildings, etc. We don't know the site.

After 3 to 4 looks at the draft, I still have question marks (and everything that is not understood here will also not be understood by the building authority and the draftsman) such as how the roof will be, why the garden was not drawn in, even though it is supposed to merge with the house, why the staircase on the ground floor is in a different place than on the upper floor... why the wall thicknesses change... how high the neighboring halls are. I respect the beginnings of amateurs. Unfortunately, they quickly encounter limits which they do not observe and cannot (or do not) point out.

My first wish would be to be able to recognize everything dimensioned with the existing building on a (hand-drawn) site plan. A tried cross-section or photos would also be helpful for a forum. The questionnaire should actually be a help for the builder to deal again with legal and needs situations here. Unfortunately, it is barely filled out.

Overall, one has to say that no expert was involved here. Whether this is even allowed to be built according to Austrian standards cannot be judged here, but you do not want that anyway. You want thoughts on the draft.

conservative or modern construction method - modern, with architectural referencing as building/wine cellar in the surroundings

Do you have an example?

open kitchen, cooking island - open with kitchen island, view and opening toward the garden

That is not implemented here, however. The kitchen view faces the TV (windowless north wall)

fireplace - yes, built-in tiled stove with viewing window

Where is it located? Is that the one on the northern exterior wall? Where is the chimney then? Is it allowed on the adjacent hall?

you can’t do without: office with a view,

What if the child wants the nice room with the view? The question is not fair because it is currently hypothetical. But I find this “can’t do without” very telling regarding the priorities.

My thought: currently there are different dimensions that do not match each other. The upper floor gets different exterior walls, which are currently changing the later it gets on the weekend. For the drawn sliding doors there is no wall at all, a shower cannot be entered through a tub. Who is supposed to use the shower on the ground floor? You would first have to walk across the house. The office will be furnished with tiny furniture.

Statics are completely disregarded. Hardly anything important for planning is considered. The window widths vary with the ideas changing hour by hour on a Saturday. No downpipes for central toilets exist. There is a wall going under the stairs.

glass floor slab along the window on the 1st floor

I am looking for ideas like this, but such that the open space below benefits from it. Rooms without daylight make people sick. Artificial light is not nice. If there can be no windows, then other ideas are needed to ventilate and illuminate rooms. I do not understand why one is thinking about a concrete roof covering the only opening of the future house instead of an atrium or air space inside the house. There are several possibilities that an amateur would never come up with.

I strongly advise for this exciting project to consult an architect who can also think outside the box. He can also focus on and use the load-bearing walls of the basement?/garage? to build a possible house.

I see some initial thoughts here in the draft, but these do not have to be shown to the architect. I currently also see no status of a submission plan, because this is like a building application in terms of importance, where everything must be explicitly shown and buildable.