Space requirements for side-by-side refrigerator + washing machine/dryer

Hello everyone,

we are currently in the preliminary planning stage with our architect and the second draft is already close to our ideas. But just close, not quite.

Since we would really like to have a side-by-side refrigerator, but these stand-alone ones are quite bulky, I would like to take a little space from the utility room (only for the utility room + pantry, as the technology is in the basement) and create a niche for the SBS refrigerator. Since this also creates a niche in the utility room, that would be the perfect place for a washer and dryer stacked on top of each other.

Since we don’t have an SBS refrigerator yet, I can only orient myself by the dimensions in the manufacturer information. But that is not my intention anyway, I don’t want to build the house around the refrigerator.
Therefore, I am now looking for general dimensions that should be sufficient for any future standard side-by-side refrigerator.

Attached is a sketch of how I roughly imagined it. A picture is worth a thousand words, as is well known.
So I would like to know how large the dimensions a;b;c should be at minimum.

I would be very grateful for your help.

Regards

I guess it depends on the refrigerator. You need to know whether you want it flush or if there should still be space on the left and right in the niche.

Of course, I would prefer it if it closed flush on the left and right. But since most appliances need space on both sides (10-20cm), this can only be solved with a paneling or a proper built-in refrigerator. I haven't found the latter yet, or they were almost €10,000, which is 5-6 times too expensive...

With the flush closing, there's somehow the problem that you can't fully recess the refrigerator, because then you can't open the doors completely, which is necessary for pulling out the drawers in the refrigerator.

Basically, I'm only interested in how this could be solved universally. It can't be that I'm the first one to come up with such an idea.

75 cm depth and 95 cm width are sufficient - you always have to allow for some space. 10 cm sticks out of the niche, which you need because of the doors. According to your drawing, it will be tight with the dishwasher. But don't forget: in the plans, you always have rough construction measurements, i.e. plaster will be added, which makes about 1.5 cm per wall.

That's what I had in mind, thank you!
May I ask where you got the measurements from? If it is really supposed to be completely recessed, I would need more width again to be able to fully open the doors, I assume.

I have had such a device twice or still have it. Our [wird frei stehen], it is not possible otherwise with our kitchen.