South-facing plot 700 sqm, single-family house approx. 150 sqm, any ideas or input?

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ypg

2025-05-31 13:47:20
  • #1



Hmm, I often find this approach restrictive and difficult to implement. For example, you might want this podium staircase at all costs, but you also find a closet niche like on Pinterest, Pax and Metod great. Then you absolutely want a niche access to a pantry or whatever, and suddenly, one thing is not compatible with the other – at least not in the house size you envision financially.
I often find it easier, at least when it comes to budget-conscious homebuilding, to look at the wall that results between the front door and the staircase and consider how to implement the purpose with (proven) items.
The best example is the T-solution in the bathroom: I often read in another forum: "I have this bathroom: how can I incorporate a T-solution here? I really want it." The lack of insight that the layout is totally wrong for the room, that roof slopes might be disruptive anyway, that the entire space is ruined by two more walls, resulting only in corridors, is missing, and people get dissatisfied because they have collected three glossy brochure cutouts. They then become blind to any other great possibility to design the bathroom.
But this also applies to the window seat, the mega large kitchen island, the hidden pantry behind the kitchen cabinet, and so on.
Often, one just becomes blind to other beautiful possibilities that the house – yes – dictates. That doesn’t matter.
 

motorradsilke

2025-05-31 13:53:10
  • #2
I think it’s good to get inspiration this way. Not everyone has the imagination to come up with ideas for every position on their own. And not everyone knows the possibilities that exist. However, you then have to consider whether you really want it, whether it has any disadvantages, whether it exceeds the budget, select the appropriate ideas from several, and so on.
 

ypg

2025-05-31 14:01:33
  • #3


If you take a look at it, the house is somewhat warped, and consequently the plot as well. However, this does not really matter for the rough planning or this thread.

The 5 meters on the north and west cannot really be applied, it is more like 3 meters in the north, while the 5 meters in the west correspond to where a possible house could be. Then 1 meter in the east for the garage.
 

ypg

2025-05-31 14:02:49
  • #4
Yes, you may, can, and should get inspiration. It is just difficult to implement it exactly as you see it.
 

11ant

2025-05-31 15:34:17
  • #5

The problem with model houses is when their owners are high earners. They often afford quality, i.e. not masses of living space square meters, but “plots instead of building sites” with gardens instead of just sparse low-budget vegetation on building plots and further floor area ratio “excesses.” Standing in a cage-like manner just far enough away from the fence to still be able to paint it, however, kills any grandeur of a villa and reduces it to a substitute villa.

Even just as an antidote to FOMO, it’s worth setting aside the old saying “build only once” well before planning your own home, like Christmas trees after Epiphany. Unfortunately, most model house watchers do not look for “individual instead of standard” but for “standard” and “more sophisticated than standard” to mix these 90/10 or 80/20: standard as a supposed guarantee of social compatibility plus as a spice just as much as they can afford in details from the world of two to three salary brackets above them. Courage that costs almost nothing financially (like an antenna yellow front door) is almost never summoned. What results is often at most cladding in aubergine instead of classic Westphalian “mett” or the Mac Mansion mix substitute villa with also rearward-driving captain gables and porch strap to Hornbach-style garage with woodgrain wide-mouth door.

My advice therefore remains to refrain from gathering all these appetizer samples for whose digestion the plot often has no enzymes at least until in performance phase 2 the implementation of the room program into a building body takes place. Two house designs from the wireframe model that look like identical twins can still be individualized enough in the phase of dressing and grooming that even their own mother no longer recognizes them as twins. It is therefore never necessary to collect ammunition before getting to know the architect to defend the home against confusion. A frequently read postulate like “my wife would die or sink in shame into the ground over mediocrity if our house doesn’t have corner windows” is therefore absolutely unnecessary.
 

Hanger1

2025-05-31 22:40:35
  • #6
Hello everyone,

so the 700 sqm both in the title and in the first post was a typo. It should actually be 600 sqm as we have exactly 572 sqm.

This time I actually attached the picture with the height measurements. Unfortunately, I forgot it yesterday. The ground slopes slightly flatter towards the south, but I think this is negligible. To the north and west, there is a street 4m wide. I recorded a few height points for this. The points are in the middle of the street (2m distance from the ground).

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We discussed your idea with the basement at ground level into the garden for kitchen, dining, etc., the sleeping area on the upper floor, and access from the north.
How would you imagine guest access in this case? Would they enter through the front door near the bedrooms and then have to go one floor down to the dining area?
We did some research on how this could be solved and had the idea of a sort of split-level solution. The entrance from the north side is near ground level to the street and the upper floor (sleeping) and basement (living) would be reachable by a half flight of stairs.
What do you think about that? I sketched an example just to better illustrate. The entrance area and stairs are of course not fitting at all yet.

We have the following paragraph in the development plan
Plinth height:
The upper edge of the raw floor on the ground floor of the parcel, whose natural terrain is higher than the adjacent street, must not be higher than 40cm above the natural terrain. It is measured at the valley-side center of the house parallel to the street.

What is defined as the ground floor in such cases? The basement, the upper floor, or the entrance area?
 

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