What you need to get started:
1. Design assignment (compiled by the project customer, the client, minimally in the form of a floor-by-floor list of premises with their desired areas and an indication of the heat source; you can specify other parameters of the building, our template for this will help Assignments, file in the form of an Excel table);
2. Site plan in a reliable geometric form indicating dimensions – copied from the duty cadastral plan (in Ukraine issued by CNAP, in the European Union by the local municipality);
3. local development restrictions imposed on the project by local authorities (in Ukraine, for houses with a total area of more than 500 square meters and in urban areas – this is the MUOZZD, issued by the city’s urban planning department / rural administration; in the European Union the names are different, but the content is similar, with the addition of a boundary height, sometimes a type of roof and / or walls);
4. soil geology of the site (it must be ordered not before design, but during, namely after the first stage of development of the master plan for the site, MP-1);
add. 1 (for sites in the city or with active terrain) – topographic plan of the site, covering adjacent landholdings to a depth of 6 m, drawing the boundaries of the site according to the current cadastre, displaying underground utility networks, and in 1:500 scale;
add. 2 (for areas on a landslide-prone slope) – calculation of the slope (done by geologists who examine the soils of the site, they also determine the degree of landslide hazard of the slope and the need to calculate the slope);
add. 3 (during reconstruction) – measurements and technical. survey of an existing building (performed by specialists – usually in the same team with topographers);
More details:
Design assignment is your list of requirements for the building; the required minimum data for our work is as follows:
list of premises and their area (as well as their equipment, if this may affect the shape, area or height of the room, or requires connection to water supply, sewerage, forced ventilation);
list of buildings and structures on the site – in addition to the house itself, it could be a garage, utility unit, boiler hut, bathhouse or swimming pool, cellar, gazebo, pond, stream, flower garden, greenhouse or vegetable garden – and so on;
heat source of the home heating system (gas, solid fuel, solar energy, heat pump, electricity);
The architect (me) can decide everything else, but you can decide too, if necessary, by seeking advice and determining the following parameters:
house style; my preferences lie in the field of modern architecture, with a free and expressive form, inscribed in the context of the situation, but other styles and movements that make your heart beat faster can make an equally beautiful home, and perhaps in my portfolio you will be able to see something close in spirit;
The principle of house location on the site is a house in the depths, away from the street, or vice versa, with the formation of a mini-park behind it; when site is on a slope, this decision is also related to the vertical position of the house relative to the street (and this always makes it possible to use the advantages of a houses on a slope);
wall design – I can make a decision based on your desired qualities (ease of implementation, cost of material, thermal efficiency), or you can simply choose from three: 1. brickwork with insulation from the outside, 2. blocks of autoclaved aerated concrete, 3. blocks of porous ceramics (Porotherm, Keraterm, HELUZ); Another option for wall construction is also possible (timber house, frame house, masonry wall material with characteristics that are not confirmed by test reports), with certain limitations in the design;
flooring material, between floors or attics – reinforced concrete or wooden beams;
desirability of bars, shutters or roller blinds on windows (outside);
… and other parameters and features that are significant to you.
When you start working with us, you will receive a project assignment template, this is an Excel spreadsheet file where everything that can be asked for designing a house will be given; you will need to enter the area values of the rooms, delete cells with extra rooms and remove unnecessary parameters in the cells.
Tips and explanations.
Number of rooms and their area: find out what the house tax will beand how much the construction will cost (our help is possible here, using examples from our practice).
MUOZZD – Local Minds and Observation of Land plots – issued by the local architectural authority; This is not relevant in all settlements of Ukraine, especially for low-rise buildings (for private houses with a total area of more than 500 sq. m. in the city – it is mandatory, for houses of smaller area and outside the city it is not required).
Topo survey – topographic plan of the site and adjacent territory, with boundaries (according to the cadastre) and underground utility networks; scale 1:500, format – PDF + DWG.
Geology of site soils – data on the physical and mechanical properties of soils under the house spot (layer by layer, to the depths of possible impact from the weight of the house).
Slope calculation – if the site has an inclined structure, the slopes may pose a risk of slipping, and such a slope must be checked by calculating it for sliding; For this purpose, a chain of wells is drilled, and calculations are made based on materials from tables of physical and mechanical properties of soils. Calculation of the slope gives the plane of potential sliding of the slope mass (if there is one).
Measurements of a building – consist of two types of work: the actual measurements, and the execution of drawings based on them; can be purely planning (only dimensions in plan) and volumetric – planning (dimensions both horizontally and vertically of the volume of the building)
Tech. inspection of a building – instrumental measurement of the physical and mechanical properties of building structures (cutting out a piece of a load-bearing wall, foundation or ceiling and testing it for strength);
