Single-family house with 190 m² and a 55 m² granny flat in the basement on a slight slope

Hello ypg,

yes, I may not have understood everything.

The pipes come in at the basement stairs at the bottom and are led to the technical room behind the stairs.

In my first text, I wrote that I am concerned with the external appearance of the house as well as an assessment of the construction costs. Due to the static structure with a staggered floor as well as the additional costs of the shallow gable roof, and I would like clinker, but that causes considerable additional costs that I cannot really estimate. The architect cannot give me any figures either, of course, it depends on the actual execution...

All other suggestions are of course welcome.

Hello Hanghaus 2023

thank you for your opinion on the shallow gable roof, we also like it better, although it might look different in reality.

I mentioned the budget somewhere, total 900 k.

I do not want to publish the drawings from the architect, I do not have his consent for that, sorry.

The OG is exactly 75% of the EG and should correspond to the single-story construction method.

Wow, indeed: 121sqm/90sqm.

Supply lines are only electricity, water, cable. They come in under the front door and inside there is a built-in cabinet or similar. Wastewater goes out under the tenant apartment’s door and then to the street.

Then erase the question about "technical safety" from your mind if you are already cheating at the base. A HA wall can be done but is the opposite of safe. (this also applies to stepped execution) That's all I have. Taste cannot be debated, whether flat or pitched roof.

Ultimately, the only question left to discuss is whether the gable roof or flat roof is more appealing, since you don’t like to address other inquiries that much. Basically, I think it’s good when someone has clear ideas and wants to implement certain things for understandable reasons. I like the gable roof less here; in the picture, the lower building appears massively wide and it "devours" the somewhat too small-looking upper floor, which just barely peeks out from the belly of the huge ground floor. However, this personal opinion is ultimately totally irrelevant because it’s a feeling that varies for everyone, so I wonder what you want to find out for yourself from these individual opinions about the roof shape. It will be 60:40 or 40:60, and then, is a pony parting or a side part better? When I decide on something or have already decided, I gladly put it up for discussion and provide all information that people want from me, since I ask people here for their participation. First, I do what I want in the end anyway, and secondly, it can only be an advantage if someone points out mistakes or weaknesses (unless you exclude that in your own planning...). A good decision can handle a critical review; what I don’t want to view critically may possibly have weaknesses that I personally don’t quite want to admit. The architect’s floor plan can easily be adjusted without anyone ever seeing it, and the requested floor plans of your design are available and come from your own imagination, so I don’t understand why these should be "hidden" as well. For this reason alone, this discussion here is extremely tedious and cannot benefit you at all. In the end, you can rightly say that the people in the forum have not negatively evaluated or criticized any of your ideas, simply because you reveal nothing about them. But then I ask myself, why are you even here? The result of the flat/gable roof taste question could have been decided by throwing dice. I have only dealt with your drawings a little because without a floor plan, etc., it is really tedious and especially only inexactly possible; I have not seen any furniture with measurements so far, but rather, in my opinion, a questionable staircase also without measurements in an unfortunate position, 89 cm doors everywhere in a rather generous new building, but at least a wide garage door, wall projections and excessive space consumption that arise by necessity due to amateur planning, etc. In my opinion, the roof shape or brick are rather secondary questions because, first, you want a coherent and well-proportioned floor plan with planned, individual features, or does the exterior view of the house have priority here? I cannot see any of that in what has been shown so far, so where are your floor plans (I’ll try again)? So: If you really want a critically helpful review and help from people who have, in part, deep experience with house building and have implemented it several times in their lives, then please post your floor plan, etc., with measurements and furniture here, and then you will also experience lively participation. Or we can continue to muse over the flat roof vs. gable roof taste question whose tendency was already answered before the question was asked: "Some say this, others say that," fish or meat, both can fit or not.