This design is extraordinarily terrifying: the style is authentically that of a construction craft business with an office and owner's apartment on the premises – even the garage looks exactly like a typical small hall with a workbench and storage for everything that needs to be regularly loaded into the craftsmen’s vehicles, with the main house dating from around 1960 and the garage still from the time when the premises were still a farm, retrofitted with a rolling door. They even thought of the entrance with an outside staircase to the raised ground floor – truly eerily authentic, down to the window formats. I can hardly believe that this is supposed to be a new building, it looks so much like a conversion with all its compromises. As if someone had bought an abandoned business and was now converting the office rooms also for residential purposes.
The idea of designing a building as a habitable noise barrier for the garden is a reversal – i.e. the tail is wagging the dog – and hopefully also obviously not a happy approach. The boomerang floor plan trend is otherwise largely known only from bungalows. By the way, the load-bearing walls are oriented in the wrong direction. Do you want to send us prematurely on April Fool’s Day?