The Plan Critique a short series for the first time in history that my first thought was that a polite, one-sentence reply to a letter sent to the plans, but then yet I chose to analyze the drawings, because

every household carries a lesson

and this lesson is not dependent on the size, or whether you like it or not? The drawings are much says it all - often without commentary

(Although I like better when something is due to the life of the plan, how to participate in the development, what were the boundary conditions, instructions that you have given the designer). The original article title was: "There's not too late to think again", but then I received the following letter:

Dear Nicholas!
About the design:
ground floor plan of the development of a very close relationship characterized by a design builder. We got asked for amt. Very much consideration of how we live, and also how to live with even smarter. The appearance of a what inspired plan downloaded from the Internet. The designers have a very nice house surprised us, it's in the Annex to v1.24. It also gave approval to, and, unfortunately, only after we asked for a quotation for implementation. It was a mistake. Perhaps you can see, this is the roof design does not come cheap. We decided, modify. The kivitelezőnkkel consultation and a smart software coined sown at home, all together with a simpler, less expensive, but hopefully not much "worse" case. This is v2.6. Our library is now here. The construction has started a week ago.
The plot is about 3.5 m drop diagonally. This caused many headaches when installing the house. Colourless Feed or not, was the basic question. What we have decided not to, assuming the building in a corner of a little over-emergence of what we are trying to correct garden and landscaping.
Waiting for your comments, thanks, MT

When I looked at these plans, it is the first impression was that

was not designed by architects,

(Because it is very visible, but less interesting), and the second is that (house) design inexperienced (but it is interesting and really a problem).

The plans included the names quickly banged the Hungarian Chamber of Engineers Member eyepiece and confirmed the hunch, the plan-making is not an architect, but also a civil engineer educated static, whose Hungarian Architects Chamber membership because there is planning permission to be (for it never occurred to me that you may not even he made ​​the plans and just signed ....)

The site slopes diagonally to the opposite corners of the building is more than 1.5 m height difference, so installation of the building,

terrain matching is essential

it affects everything. The plot between the corners of 3.5 m height difference, which effectively raises the need for tuning half-full level, although many people do not like to be in such a situation can be achieved almost exclusively by direct contact with garden and over-charging and cuts. I do not accidentally, since it also went through the Plan review in a very ingeniously designed szinteltolásos house parties . To more easily understood the gravity of the problem, I made a rough diagonal cross-section:

this was necessary because the designer does not portray the real heights, and uploads to the site plan or cuts, not the floor plan or the facades. Assuming that the corners of the building 0.5 meters away from slamming, so the opposite corner terrace is more than 1.7 meters will be highlighted (and not from 1.25, as included in the plan). Such a strong lejtésnél not just in the immediate environment, but also the entire plot width should also be indicated, as required, to the edge of the site do not change our mood of the land height.

Such a significant enhancement in which the number of different designers tried to hide in the hills terrain matching for filling in the gaps will be the end of it is unusable slopes occur on the property. Since this does not have any plan or drawing of the site, so this could be called up to the builder misled, which is quite strange, but somehow understandable (?), If one kind of design knowledge.

simple structure can be simple house

Anyone who encounters a lot of basic drawings, to the first cursory examination, the eye discovers how sophisticated and we are building long skeleton of the building / structure? It immediately came up with the contradiction that while this is a simple building mass, but for some reason beyond the walls of the structure are komplikálva. To simplify, it's a kéttraktusos, középfőfalas house, which is the central main wall - in front of me totally unknown reason - it was broken - complicating this floor plan and also to the structure - that while any floor plan or other benefits are not derived from it. A former Tervkritikában no surprise I observed that

"... All weird when I say that to me (!) A floor plan at first glance graphic" pleasant "feel (no longer on the drawing embellishment, but the walls, openings placement due), you will have immediately increased the Trust ... "

Partly due to the foregoing, that this house is not too large and complex includes five types of joists length and we have not been taken into account under the terrace roof more gerendahosszait. The floor plan is the kind of kialakításnál

complete inexperience

seen as fitting that the terrain and can not be argued here that the builders SUCH asked for the duty and responsibility of the designer that created the housing and also be good builders comply with the requirements.

The design also includes the scope of responsibility, that tries to talk about certain things or even to persuade the építtetőit that, for example.

• it should be noted that the exhaust gas may not be happy to introduce a food pantry for storage or to the garage through the kitchen & the chamber is not advisable to arrive at a flat
• so too a comfortable kitchen does not fit into the kitchen and the dining room door of one of beszorított (no coincidence that the chairs are also pushed depicted)
• before the kitchen covered terrace can be used practically for nothing, only the structure accomplish good
• static existence of chaos is the thickness of their walls and long
• a whole, a 14-nm flying corridor would have been expected to accommodate at least somewhere in wardrobe, hall cabinet

The roof design of the floor plan can be most felt that all the possible size of room (one room for erroneous data: 9.3 / 12.2 instead of 12.2 / 19.3 nm would be the correct data). The roof of the bathroom with no placement has been thought through, because the drain pipe 125 mm, its size is not an easy rakosgatható, especially over the front door.

These little things are apparent wrote that inexperienced house design made it (signed) of plans. In particular, I was sad when I read the following letter:

Unfortunately, I did not get the visual plan építészemtől, but I carved my software is one smart

Well sloped than planned as such a fundamental duty of the architect was a landscaping plan to create a fair, just, therefore, should not have been set aside from the design either, because then the plan would immediately kiderültek imperfections. The builders always considered layman, so I do not know that you actually

We also act as a design award?

This, unfortunately, a lot of the architect and his architect denominator is abusing and trying to minimal erőbedobással letudni a commission. Not the builders to be "clever little schemes" to obtain and not for him to renderings barkácsolgatni, but the architect, among other reasons because it points to the most important of these are not a few thousand can-programs: a house diagonally sloping land to be realistic presentation. Today, when all this CAD program funds can, I think this is quite simply outrageous.

other plan of the building (click the next photo)

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