Single-family house with a ground-level granny flat on a slope

Who is doing the visualizations?

The retaining wall in the north is already on the neighbor's property. We had imagined leaving 2m of space, then going down 1.5 m, and if that’s not enough, then doing the whole thing again

I am aware of that. Hopefully, this retaining wall is on the neighbor’s property, at the boundary, and levels their building land. Is something like this even allowed in the development plan? I don't think much of leveled hillside plots. Anyone who wants that should buy a flat plot.

Somehow I don't like how the slope is ignored with the little pictures.
Your property is not easy. You will have a hard time with general contractors. Back then, the advisor from Schwörerhaus was honest with us. He took a model house and adapted it so that the floor plan fit our wishes. He named a price and immediately said he couldn't price it, he didn't know. Go to the architect, he knows the slope and us.

Did they also send you a preliminary planning contract for 2000,- before you even exchanged a word with the architect? When asked about references for slope properties, they only said there are many examples in the catalog and these will be adapted by the architect to the property. But that was too stupid for me, I’m not paying without knowing anything first.

I know that. Hopefully, this retaining wall is on the neighbor's property, on the border, and levels his building land. Is something like that even allowed in the development plan?

I don't think much of leveled slope properties. If you want that, you should buy a flat property.

Why shouldn't the wall be allowed on the property? Otherwise, he couldn’t build at all. But the city has already admitted that some things in the planning are not well thought out.

We, on the other hand, like living so high up on a plateau and playing on a second one ... let’s see if it’s realistic then, we don’t know.

The house of my parents is constructed like this. At the time of construction, a plateau was built up to bring the entire ground floor level with the street. Fully basemented below but everything is on a slope. On the side, there are only windows in the laundry room and a garden entrance. Above, there is a terrace and a small garden, below the play lawn, vegetable beds, garden shed. It doesn't work. From above, you cannot keep an eye on the children and it feels like everything in the house is too far away from what you would like to have downstairs in the garden. My parents only use the lower garden for vegetables now because they have difficulty going up and down the hill.

We were not with the architect. In the meantime, we had found another company. Small without glossy finish and no sales with [Zeichenknecht] in the background. Those who deliver performance should get paid for it. However, that initially slowed us down and then we found our [GU].

My parents' house is built like that. When it was constructed, they had built up a plateau to bring the entire ground floor construction area up to street level. Fully basemented below but everything is on the slope. On the side, only windows in the laundry room and a garden entrance. Above, terrace and small garden; below, the play lawn, vegetable beds, garden shed. It doesn’t work. You can’t see the children from above and it feels like everything inside the house is too far away from what you want outside in the garden below. My parents only use the lower garden for vegetables now because they can no longer easily go up and down the hill.

Yes exactly, logically we want as much space as possible on one level. With a waiver, I could also set the house by the street and then have 1400 m2 of hill all around me.

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We didn’t go to that architect. We had found another company in the meantime. Small, without high gloss, and no salesmen with puppet masters in the background.
Those who deliver performance should get paid for it. However, that initially slowed us down and then we found our general contractor.

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Of course, payment should be made for performance. I would just like to know in advance what I am paying for.
Who did you build with?