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Proyecto Básico - the Plans (Part 4)

posted by Graham on Thu, 21/01/2016 - 18:09

At last we have the final drawings for the house. I can also throw some light on why, in the second set of plans, the architect (Jose) had shrunk the front of the house when adding covered terracing at the end of the house. On the type of land we have (rural) there is a floor size limit for a house of 5% of the land area which based on 10.000m2 is 200m2 (maybe we could argue that we have nearly 13.000m2 giving 260m2 but as we already had problems with this I suppose we'll let it go).

The end result is that we can have small covered section of some 7.5m2 for our outside kitchen (which is all we wanted it for anyway!) taking our house to 199.5m2. (phew!)

Worth noting here that the 5% includes ALL floors of the house NOT just the footprint (so our house, with a ground floor of  136m2 and first floor of 56m2 we have a floor size of 192m2, add on the external kitchen and we're 0.5m under the limit. (Close eh!).

Tomorrow we are off to the Ayuntamiento to present the "Proyecto Básico" - I wonder what little gems that will throw up.

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