Two-family house - initial rough drafts

Thank you very much for all the suggestions! OK, you’ve convinced me, we’re starting over again. I have already been able to take away a few things that we want to pay better attention to this time.

However, I would still be interested in how you assess the current entrance area for the upper residential unit, starting from the front door, through the stairs, landing, to the wardrobe on OG1. Are measurements of this kind generally sufficient or is it too tight?

And do you think that the OG2 bathroom and dining area are really too close to each other?

@Naddl: The OG2 bathroom was originally even larger because a sauna was actually supposed to go in — it would be perfect in combination with the roof terrace. But we’ll see, maybe a small storage room makes more sense after all.

@Musketier: Yes, I also firmly assumed the landing staircase. I was very surprised that the architect came up with a solution close to what is shown here. However, the landing staircase necessarily relocates the ground floor entrance to one of the edges, which should rather increase the traffic area.

@ypg: A completely detached connecting staircase between OG1 and 2 also leads to poorer space utilization on OG1 because the area above the ground floor-OG1 stairs then disappears on OG1.

Nevertheless, of course, these are not deal breakers, let’s see...

Better use of space does not always mean: the more sqm, the better. I honestly cannot imagine walking through a multi-family house stairwell in a residential unit just to quickly dash to the bathroom or to bring something downstairs or upstairs. That would mean always being properly dressed to quickly get water from the kitchen at night. Architects are usually more familiar with DIN dimensions.

Hello everyone,

next year we want to build. Together with an architect, we created a first rough draft.

Sorry, but these are not architect plans - the presentation, dimensions, etc. would be different........

No, the pictures were not from the architect. I already said that I copied them and also changed them. In the architect's design, the two residential units were not clearly separated, we wouldn't even have received a certificate of separation for that.