Single-family house on a hillside - Many planning questions

So, all I can say is - apparently I wasted your time - I'm sorry! I didn't mean that - I just thought YOU could help us. :/

I would like to answer every question, but unfortunately I can't - I don't have a site plan .. or rather, I don't know enough about it - I wonder - do I need to study architecture first? We are simply helpless.

Yes, our wish would be to have everything (living spaces) on the ground floor. The access there is also more "favorable".
The thought of sleeping in the basement doesn't feel quite right to us - who wants to sleep next to the garage?

A basement can also be made livable. An architect will surely find a solution. You have a garden in the front, full windows, that has nothing to do with gray fire protection doors and light wells. The site plan is either already with the architect or you get it from the municipality. Why is the garage on the opposite side of the entrance?

Hello Grisu, I can understand that you are frustrated right now. But no one in the forum can help you if the requirement is not to get any bigger (because of money) but to keep all rooms on the same floor and not remove any rooms. And then there is missing information about the surroundings. Your last statement about the driveway confuses me completely - you want to drive into the garage in the basement from the lower side of the plan, but at the same time the driveway situation on the ground floor is better? I just can't imagine this; to me it sounds contradictory and I first wonder why the garage is not on the ground floor level if the driveway is better there?

Even if you don’t have a site plan at the moment, you can still sketch the property and mark the cardinal directions as well as the slope, elevations, and street! You don’t need an architecture degree for that.

This is not about an underground basement level, but about a ground floor to be planned at garden level, which thus has all the features to accommodate full living space.

I’m sorry that you present yourself here as helpless and clueless. Unfortunately, these are not good prerequisites for building a house. On the one hand, being helpless; on the other hand, not changing it. At the moment you are here in the forum, later you will be the helpless woman at your own construction site, who can be walked all over. But the first way out of helplessness is, as is well known, realization :)

Indeed, you don’t need a degree. But dealing with houses, basics of house building, and ideas for implementation—whether through professional journals, magazines, house ads in the local paper, model housing estates, or simply visits to nearby construction sites—does not matter, but it would be helpful to inform yourself on how it works!

A certain curiosity and eagerness to absorb information simply belongs to building your life's work. You should know that as a teacher.

You have now been pointed out several times that it is not understandable where and why the garage and entrance are supposed to be. Guessing by us is not appropriate here, and thus suggestions are useless—it is up to you to provide the information.

Regards