East-West Facing Property Blueprint

THE PLOT
The plot is 45 feet wide and 70 feet deep, which works out to 3,150 square
feet, or 350 square yards.

The house must face either east or west. We don't want north- or
south-facing versions. Since the plot can face either way, we'll need the
plan drawn both ways round — a normal version and a mirror image of it.

How far the building has to sit back from each edge of the plot is set by
the municipal rules. Please check what those distances actually are for a
plot this size at the height we're proposing, and confirm them to us before
you settle on the footprint. We don't want to discover later that the
building has to shrink.

THE SIZE OF THE HOUSE
The house should come to 5,200 square feet of construction in total. That
figure includes the basement — it is not 5,200 on top of the basement.

There are four levels: a basement, a ground floor, a first floor, and a part
second floor with an open terrace alongside it.

Four bedrooms.

Ceilings on the floors above ground should be 12 feet.

THE BASEMENT AND THE CARS
This is the part we care most about, so it's worth being clear.

Three cars park in the basement. They must be large cars — think full-size
SUVs, not hatchbacks. And each one must be able to drive out on its own,
without anyone moving another car first. No parking one car behind another.
If something has to be sacrificed to make the three cars work independently,
sacrifice the other space in the basement rather than the parking.

The basement should feel like a proper floor, not a car park. We want at
least 12 feet of clear height in it. By clear height we mean the actual
open space you can stand in — measured to the lowest thing hanging down,
whether that's a beam, an air duct or a pipe, not to the underside of the
slab above. Once beams and services are allowed for, this probably means
the basement floor sits somewhere around 15 to 16 feet below the floor
above it.

Besides the parking, the basement holds the entrance lobby, the staircase
and lift (which run from the basement all the way to the top floor),
the services, and whatever floor area is left over as storage or a
multipurpose room.

**Deliverables**
The architectural package should therefore include:
- Site plan (Cad and PDF)
- Basement floor plan
- Ground-floor plan
- First-floor plan
- Second-floor + terrace plan
- Roof/terrace plan where required
- East-facing version
- Mirrored West-facing version
- All four elevations
- Building sections, particularly through the basement, staircase and lift
- 5–6 high-resolution exterior elevation renders
- Dimensioned plans with room sizes, parking dimensions, setbacks and circulation clearly marked