Layout of a summer cottage 8 acres
If you are thinking about building a spacious dacha or a small country house, then we advise you to take a closer look at the "bridgehead" more. In this material, we will consider an example of a layout plan for a plot of 8 acres, describe the basic principles and rules, and also try to carry out planning with our own hands.
The beginning of the planning of the suburban area
In the last article, we described in detail the whole process of planning a plot of 6 acres. Let's start, as usual, with sizes and shapes. Plots with an area of ββ8 acres come in a wide variety of geometries: triangular, pentagonal, trapezoid, as well as any irregular shape. For the basis of our plan, we will choose a simple option - a rectangular plot measuring 40 m x 20 m.
Let's limit our site from three sides to neighboring ones, and on one side of the road.
Scheme of our site
Recall that we will use Garden Planner, a shareware program for site planning, as in the previous one, and also rely on the norms for the location of the house on the site for competent landscape design.
For our suburban area, we would like to provide the following facilities:
Recreation area;
Garden.
Well or well, as well as a septic tank;
This is the minimum and most common set of objects, although you can come up with many more options and variations.
Location of site objects
As already discussed in the previous article, the layout can be based on the location of objects, or on the nuances of landscape design and communications. For example, on our 8 acres there may be a strong slope or the depth of water may be small only in a certain place. There may be many such restrictions. Therefore, we will also create our plan based on the desired location of objects.
Choosing a place for a house
The most important building is the house. Therefore, when planning a summer cottage, several factors are taken into account:
House size;
His location.
The first point depends on your desire and possibilities. The only factor determining the size is the rule: the size of the built-up area of ββthe house should not exceed 10% of the plot. In our case, this can be a building of 80 sq m, that is, building options, for example, 10 m x 8 m or 9 m x 9 m. country house.
The second point involves taking into account the location of the house both inside the site - central, deep or front landing (for more details, read in our material on site planning), and external indents:
In our example, consider a deep landing - the house is as far away from the road as possible and assume that both ours and neighboring buildings will be made of brick with wooden floors, that is, the distance from neighboring houses should be at least 8 m. In this case, even if neighboring houses already built at the closest possible distance from the border of our site, then we will simply step back from the fence 5 m. We draw a diagram of the possible location of our cottage along with the house itself:
Let's move the house to the left corner of the border and place the house "across" the suburban area - in this way, we can maximize the remaining area in front of it.
Bath
In the previous case of a plot of six acres, we did not find a place for a bath in connection with the norms and nuances. But now we have 8 acres and no forest. Therefore, we choose a place for a bath guided by the following principles:
The result is the following zone:
As you can see in the picture, there is even a place for a large bath together with a guest house. But for our plot of 8 acres, a small bath 5 m x 5 m will be quite enough. We will place it in the upper right corner of the zone.
Choosing a place for communication
Since we have 2 sources of water consumption on the site - a bathhouse and a summer house, then, together with the occurrence of water, we will take into account the location of the well for the convenience of installing a water supply system. You can read more about the choice of water supply for a private house in our material. Therefore, we choose a place for it in the northern part of the site between these objects, closer to home. We retreat from the foundation 5 m, and from the fence of neighbors 2 m.
To choose a place for a septic tank, we are guided by the principles:
Also, for a better organization of the sewer pipe system, we choose the location between the bathhouse and the house, but in the diagonal opposite from the well. Do not forget to pre-coordinate the location of the septic tank with the neighbors, as well as organize access for the entrance of the vacuum truck.
Garage
Place under the car will be located near the entrance. In the previous article, we planned a garage. In this example, we will make a parking space with a canopy.
We fill the area from the gate with gravel for 2 parking spaces.
Rest zone
A place for a recreation area is naturally formed in the central part of the site between our buildings. In our case, this turned out to be a space of approximately 15 m x 11 m.
On this space of our plot of 8 acres, you can place:
A small gazebo with a barbecue;
Summer pool;
playground;
Alpine hill.
The layout of our site allowed us to place a gazebo near the bathhouse, a summer pool in the most sunlit place, a playground and an alpine slide in the center.
Garden
There are many options for planning a garden. In our case, we are guided by the desire to place 4 beds measuring 4 m x 1 m for greens and vegetables, as well as fruit trees and shrubs with berries.