just post floor plans that one (together with the plot) finds successful. Maybe a couple of words about why, and that’s that.
And then someone else comes along and says that the entrance becomes much bigger if you rotate here and there... or the kitchen would be better there because of drainage/daily routines (without knowing that there was a reason why it was done that way, e.g. external influences), and suddenly the “perfect floor plan” is criticized and an unnecessary discussion arises.
A house is planned according to the specifications of the plot (development plan), the actual situation (orientation, neighboring buildings, planting, and soil) and the needs of the builders, e.g., size and budget. Once you internalize this, there is no perfect floor plan.
The best-selling house is the Flair 131 – let’s take this floor plan… it also works with Heinz von Heiden and Team massiv. Somehow, almost every house builder has this floor plan in their portfolio because it’s effective, inexpensive in terms of statics, sensibly zoned, covers the average needs of a 4-person family, every available square meter is well used, and the proportions of the rooms are right.
Still, I couldn’t say that it is (my) “favorite floor plan.”
Let’s take the example of the simple Maxime from Viebrockhaus; there are 4 or 5 of these in our neighborhood. And somehow also similar to the Flair... but only similar.
I know two of them from the inside: both are the same except that in the ground floor, one has a closed kitchen. The one with the closed kitchen has no entrance bay in the hallway and is therefore half a meter smaller in the hallway. Doesn’t matter. This house is occupied by a couple, in their mid-50s. Now it turns out: hip damage, stairs are rubbish, a room is missing downstairs, and upstairs there are two too many.
For a 4-person family, the house is okay. However, an office for home office is now missing. The child was born three months ago; before that, there was the home office room. For both, this layout was the floor plan they chose. Is it or was it now the favorite floor plan?
You can look inside two other Maximes. Both have the variant with an extra room on the ground floor. One house, also occupied by a couple around 50, seems to have a living room that is completely too small. Whether they have two separate bedrooms upstairs or a substitute living room, I don’t know. So, for two people, they have a 4-bedroom house but a living room that is too small.
The other family has their grown child living in this ground floor room. For them, it seems perfect. However, probably only because they extended this small living room with a conservatory.
Favorite floor plan?
And what if you now have the plot that is currently being discussed in the neighboring thread? 17 meters wide, north-facing… can/should you now put your favorite floor plan there? Will you be disloyal to yourself if you look at a different floor plan? What about the architect’s professional field, who is explicitly there to tailor a floor plan/design to a plot, i.e., to design exactly according to the above-mentioned specifications... is that then a favorite floor plan that he designs there?