Hangman
2021-08-24 15:22:36
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I think it’s great how you tackle the bull by the horns, and I’m glad that your commitment is paying off. Congratulations!!!
We have a comparable ridge height, knee wall, and roof pitch. The 50cm is admittedly low, but it’s manageable. Even with our rather narrow 8.5m house depth, it’s no problem. With dormers (if permitted) and/or skylights, you can soften this even more. Furthermore, the development plan already mentions the possibility of 1m. Another option would be an asymmetrical gable roof, meaning a shallower pitch on the hillside side, or shifting the ridge toward the hillside. Both would raise the knee wall on the hillside, which doesn’t bother anyone since no one sees it, and probably looks better since otherwise you’d only see the roof surface from the upper part of the property. With the ridge shift, the south roof would also be larger (= good for photovoltaics). And last but not least, you still have the basement floor of full living quality :)
I find the street shown very charming! Regarding the driveway, I agree with the majority opinion to place the parking spaces near the street. You will then have a few meters and steps to the house entrance, but in return, the house can be integrated much better into the property and landscaped (your right neighbor as a positive example). The more flexible you are here, the better and cheaper the planning can be. Still, a driveway to the house as well as a parking / turning area there should be provided (for deliveries, craftsmen, frail visitors, etc).
As someone who moved from the absolute flatlands to the “land of a thousand hills” (Hochsauerland... every property looks like that here), I learned during our construction that you should definitely plan and execute the modeling of the property from the very beginning. The modeling is neither particularly complex nor especially costly—if you know what you want. You will have to terrace, you will probably also leave the upper parts of the property close to nature (adventure zone for the kids), you will insert different areas at different places into the slope/property—all of that I find positive (who wants a 600sqm perfectly flat golf course?), but it has to be planned BEFOREHAND!
With the way you approach things so structurally, I’m not worried about any of these points :cool:
We have a comparable ridge height, knee wall, and roof pitch. The 50cm is admittedly low, but it’s manageable. Even with our rather narrow 8.5m house depth, it’s no problem. With dormers (if permitted) and/or skylights, you can soften this even more. Furthermore, the development plan already mentions the possibility of 1m. Another option would be an asymmetrical gable roof, meaning a shallower pitch on the hillside side, or shifting the ridge toward the hillside. Both would raise the knee wall on the hillside, which doesn’t bother anyone since no one sees it, and probably looks better since otherwise you’d only see the roof surface from the upper part of the property. With the ridge shift, the south roof would also be larger (= good for photovoltaics). And last but not least, you still have the basement floor of full living quality :)
I find the street shown very charming! Regarding the driveway, I agree with the majority opinion to place the parking spaces near the street. You will then have a few meters and steps to the house entrance, but in return, the house can be integrated much better into the property and landscaped (your right neighbor as a positive example). The more flexible you are here, the better and cheaper the planning can be. Still, a driveway to the house as well as a parking / turning area there should be provided (for deliveries, craftsmen, frail visitors, etc).
As someone who moved from the absolute flatlands to the “land of a thousand hills” (Hochsauerland... every property looks like that here), I learned during our construction that you should definitely plan and execute the modeling of the property from the very beginning. The modeling is neither particularly complex nor especially costly—if you know what you want. You will have to terrace, you will probably also leave the upper parts of the property close to nature (adventure zone for the kids), you will insert different areas at different places into the slope/property—all of that I find positive (who wants a 600sqm perfectly flat golf course?), but it has to be planned BEFOREHAND!
With the way you approach things so structurally, I’m not worried about any of these points :cool: