Floorplans

[JJD1]

Hi,

 

I'd appreciate your thoughts on these floorplans. I'm planning a 4 storey dwelling in London. It's designed as an 'upside down' house to make the best use of daylight in the living areas as it is located in a built up area of London. These drawings are only completed by me having a play around on Sketchup, so no professionals have been consulted on layout, yet! What do you think?

 

Thanks.

 

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Front elevation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ground floor

 

First Floor

 

Second Floor

 

Third Floor

 

Roof

 

[Iceverge]

Am I right in thinking that the area to the right of the elevation is completely cantilevered? 

 

Do you own the plot?

 

[the_r_sole]

Get a professional involved...

There's all kinds of implications with a house over 4 floors, and planning considerations with roof terraces.

On the plans themselves there's no much to comment on, it's a series of boxes. If it was me doing a tall house I'd be looking for opportunities to open up double height spaces or have overlapping spaces and create a bit of interest and connection 

[Thorfun]

sorry to say but I think it looks like a block of flats. I agree with @the_r_sole and for something like this you would be best to get an architect involved. obviously, it would cost quite a bit of money and your budget (from the other thread) does seem woefully low but it could be an amazing property.

 

good luck with it all.

[Bozza]

The front elevation could be made to look amazing by the use of materials colour etc.  Especially important with a squarish building.  I’ve attached a picture of a squarish house where the use of cladding colour etc make it stand out from being plain.

 

Would agree the front elevation looks like a block of flats due to repeated use of same size windows.   
 

have you though about having one staircase in the far corner and a series of open plan floors (factory loft apartment style).  With clever design in terms of placing services windows etc, you could easily subdivide each floor if you needed to create a series smaller rooms for whatever reason, in the future, or do you currently need 6 separate smaller  rooms.

you could have an amazing property there. 

 

 

 

Edited March 7, 2021 by Bozza

[Mr Punter]

Agree that there is not that much going for your attempt, but at least we can see that you are after a 3 bed house upside down design with parking and roof terrace and the size you have shown indicates that it will fit so not such a bad start.

 

Maybe have an en-suite on the ground floor and shared bathroom level 1, WC level 2.