how would you design my first floor

[sam22007]

Hellow,

I'm planning to change my first floor. The first thing I want to change is my garage in a entry door. The rest I'm open for any idea. My style is modern but still with comfort. I want as many plans as possible because and I'll pick the one who's suided best for me. The plan is the original state now.

THanks

[solidred]

Does the 'winning entry' get the commission?

[sam22007]

I don't ask you to take measurements or draw entire plans. I just like some ideas, for a skilled architect a plan like this won't take long but I'm really not good in this.

I also hope there are still some architects who really enjoy drawing plans on a pc and don't only do this for the money. I hope for some archi's it's still a hobby.

[solidred]

Oh, it's very much still a hobby
Problem is, no-one likes to feel used...

[innova+e]

"I don't ask you to take measurements or draw entire plans. I just like some ideas, for a skilled architect a plan like this won't take long but I'm really not good in this."

I would think an architect worth his/her salt would not want to do something quickly. Architecture is big, but before it's big, it's slow, slow and delicate with hundreds if not thousands of decisions to be made based on each. One change leads to another and so on. If it was myself designing this, Id want to know all the why's for this plan...why the windows are here, why the doors are there, etc. The answers would be expected to come back in terms of where the sun is coming through, and "oh, we have a great view out this way", etc.. What is the site like? what is your budget? It could go on all day. Trust me you don't want me to do it, as much as I enjoy manipulating space (making floor plans).

I suggest you offer this to the student forum, there are dozens of eager young plan makers just ready to bite into the smallest morsel as you read this.. give it a shot, good luck.

acg.

[djswan]

Wood or stone or both, change it to that, says the Fasinating Floor Fairy, or was it the Amazing Carnack?

I would plan that first. Walls are walls who cares.

[lekizz]

It looks like one of those occasional thin new inserts into the canalside in Amsterdam (I'm partly influenced by the seeming Dutch room names ). Because of the thin deep footprint of the site, you'll need to be very creative to get the circulation okay, and daylight into the middle.

I echo the advice everyone has given above, especially the fascinating floor fairy suggestion, haha. In any case, it would be difficult/impractical/inadvisable to design a ground floor plan in isolation from the rest of the house....

[sam22007]

@ lekiz, you're very close. I'm from that other Dutch country.
If this "project" was easy I won't be here. In Belgium I have a beginning archi (friend of my girlfriend) working on this but I also want some other ideas from more experienced archi's like you guys. Together whe can make this plan work. I wanted to give her a change, everyone someday must have there first project. I know it's not the most spectacular project to work on but maybe it is a little challenge.
Every wall or door is there because I've bought it that way so every thing can change. The place where there's no destination yet on the left site of the plan (with the fire place) is build after so there are no rooms above. The sun site is also there and the garden. I know it's not a big villa and yes I would also like a bigger and nicer floor plan but not everyone can afford that.

If someone has another question or if you want plan of the second floor or the front, I'll try to drawn them for u.

[lekizz]

So it is Flemish?!

Despite the fact your friend is an inexperienced student, she will be better placed to help you than the people on this forum. You have given us no information to work with - an architect will need to see existing floor plans, context/surroundings etc etc.

Which door is the nromal 'front' door onto the street? How do you currently get into the building? Do you squeeze past the car?!

Can you park the car somewhere else and use the garage space as a living area?

How do you plan to get from the big living room to the rest of the house?

[sam22007]

We now go true the garage to get in the house. I've put a car in the garage but that never happens because the garage is too small. THe garage door I would use as entry way and put a normal door in and an entry room in it.
If you have further questions, I certainly will answer them.

[djswan]

Stone on the garage floor would be better than wood, unless it's end grain chunks of white oak,score a triple bonus for the cool factor.

Still flying overhead, way overhead