Single-family house orientation garden and terrace: south or west?

  • Erstellt am 2024-03-31 10:43:02

Ralf1980

2024-04-20 17:13:51
  • #1
Hello everyone.

I will try to answer the questions, even though this should actually only be about the orientation of the terrace, and not the whole house.

There is no required or mandatory reference height, the development plan dates from 1980, 2 floors, floor area ratio and plot ratio, ridge direction and gable roof and roof pitch, nothing else.

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The load-bearing 24cm wall from east to west will of course be continued in the basement.

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There is a heating room/utility room in the basement, but I have drawn the washing machine and dryer in the bathroom so that there is also space there.
We already have the washing machine and dryer in the bathroom and do not want to carry the laundry down to the basement and then back up/outside to hang it up. I have currently not planned a bathtub either, since we used our bathtub only about 10 times in the last 20 years.

The building line can be slightly deviated from if it does not disturb the neighbors, according to our building authority. Unfortunately, I only have this photomontage, the house definitely cannot go to the very front because it would disturb the two neighbors.

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The house should be completely livable on the ground floor in old age, so that everything is possible on one level, including the access from the garage. I already have a renovated house with several levels without barrier-free design.

The district heating comes to the house from the south, and on the south side on the ground floor I simply cannot imagine a utility room, and since it is unfortunately a north-facing slope, the utility room must go into the basement on the south side, and the other rooms are arranged around it, the north slope then allows larger windows without light shafts.

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I also don’t know where to put the staircase "not squeezed into a corner". Access through the garage to a utility room would be really nice, but if the garage is in the southeast and the access from the garage is also in the southeast, then where to put the staircase?

I do not want to spend the money for a basement and two full floors, so presumably I am left only with the living basement and the ground floor.

In my opinion, having the staircase outside the living area is advantageous because adult children, visitors/overnight guests, caregivers in old age or whoever else has their own access to a living area and does not have to pass by my bedroom.

I do need the "dark rear corridor" somehow to get from the bedrooms to the bathroom without having to go through the living room, which was criticized in one of our first drafts. I will install a motion detector and daylight-controlled passage light that automatically illuminates the rear corridor.

You might now ask why I am only sharing this information now, but originally it was not meant to be about this.

Since there aren’t 20 new topics every week cluttering the forum, I took the liberty to open a new topic that should be about the orientation question of living room and terrace.

Regards, Ralf
 

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