Hello everyone,
thank you very much for your first feedback. That is definitely very helpful!
To come back to your questions:
Building envelope
The building envelope is exactly where the house stands. So 14m into the plot and 11m wide. The building envelope begins 6 meters from the property boundary, maybe 9 meters would be conceivable (by exemption application, further into the plot or rotating the building envelope is unfortunately not possible).
The plot itself is 19m wide and ~50m long. So a narrow strip, which you can barely get in Hamburg these days with some luck. Due to the width of 19m, however, you would still have about 5m of garden at the bay window. The current variant is the best possible compromise we could think of. We have balanced it out a bit with many windows facing the "main garden", so you can look there from many places in the house. But unfortunately, we couldn’t come up with anything better, as the building envelope is unfortunately really quite restricted. But of course, we would be very happy about your creative ideas.
Balcony
Actually, we planned a 13m long house. However, this would mean that the KS with 75cm would be too low for our taste, so we chose this compromise to still prevent two-storey construction.
Carport
The driveway is via the neighboring plot (building obligation, easement is present). The property is on a small street; if the children ever have their own cars, which I hope won’t be the case in about 20 years (our property is well connected to Hamburg’s public transport network), they could park on the street. Nevertheless, it is of course a bit tricky to get in there. We will have to test somehow whether it is feasible. Because ideally, we would like to build 6m from the house to the boundary, as there are tall trees at the very end of the plot that would otherwise shade the terrace.
We would then store Bobby cars, bicycles, etc. in a tool shed adjacent to the carport. We haven’t planned this concretely yet, but there should be enough space on the plot. I really like the idea of a Bobby car driving track in our "yard" and that would be an argument to build 9m further away from the boundary.
Terrace
We planned the terrace around the corner. Starting at the kitchen (maybe a grill corner there) and then around to the end of the living room.
Walk-in closet in the basement
I don’t need it, but my wife does.
Bathroom in the basement
I find the idea very good; we will need a lifting station anyway. And the shower on the ground floor takes some space from the pantry. On the other hand, my idea was that a shower on the ground floor could be useful later if we can no longer climb stairs at some point. Then the office could also be converted into a bedroom.
Kids’ bathroom
Yes, we should plan two sinks here, good point!
Pantry
The door is planned as a "delivery entrance." So you can store groceries directly from the car there.
Light wells
Not really planned yet, only that these rooms should have one. We would then place them so that they are not directly in front of the door.
Kitchen
Here we would rather move the double door properly towards the bay window and place the appliances, cabinets, etc. rather at the corner of the current double door. Right next to the garden, we would rather want the living room. This is the compromise that has arisen due to the building envelope.