[fullito]

My biggest worry is, when i finaly have the money and the ground to build my dream, that i'm not allowed to due to building restrictions :(...

Germany is densily populated and you can get a house + ground with 2-5 acres for 200-500.000k but they are all in the so called 'outter area' and apparently we don't want that. You have strict building restrictions. you can't just tear it down and rebiuld it (what you often need to to be able to build their at all. Your dream house will not be the original 0815 building)

Anyway, while i have a ton of ideas, my main motivation is to create spaces and design a house around it.

That spot where you gonna watch movies, the wind and rain protected outdoor place to watch the rain, the office which allows me to look out, feel the wind and having enough shade that my screen is usefull, the gaming room, they day bedroom, bright, with a great view and the tea room. Something like when Dr. Strange was finding that teacher there was a very beautiful japanese style empty square room with openings to every side and curtains.

Aaaand a Workshop, hobby room with big window to the north, solar power, additional water reserve and a storehouse for gworing your own food.

All of that should be in a layout with optimizes sun exposure. And it has either stacks of wood outside the window with slits high enough that you can look out but the sun doesn't annoy you or other high quality automatic blindes.

Modern, pratical, sustainable (also cheap to maintain).

Basically to build my dream house, i just need luck, time and money. Luck for the location and building regulations, Time to think that through and money.

I think i watched too much BBCs Grand Designs

[ido]

google is telling me an acre is a bit more than 4000 square meter...You need 8000-20,000 square meter plot for your house & yard or am I reading something wrongly?

The house my father was born in (& my grandmother still lived in till shortly before she died) was on a ~2500 square meter plot that seemed huge to me, so much that when my father & uncle sold the property 4 more houses were built on the same plot.

From what you wrote above your house would comfortably fit in a 1000 square meter plot with enough room for a yard around it.

[TylerE]

Very large yards make for good neighbors.

[ecpottinger]

And lets you do things without bothering them either.

[ghaff]

At least in the US, many towns have minimum lot sizes. My (admittedly somewhat rural) town has a minimum of two acres and that's not at all uncommon.

[TylerE]

That sounds pretty huge, even to me. The typical American suburban neighborhood is lots of 1/4-1/3 acre or so.

[ghaff]

This is an ex-urban town. We have apple orchards and the like. Not typical suburbia but this is about an hour outside of Boston. And I'm sure there are grandfathered plots that are smaller. On the other hand, I lived in a more conventionally suburban town for a number of years and a somewhat tonier adjacent suburban town had similar lot minimums as I recall.

[fullito]

Yeah the house but my park would not fit on 1000 square meter :)

[smiley1437]

Kevin McCloud completely changed my relationship with architecture, no such thing as too much Grand Designs!

[the-dude]

Germany is not densily populated. Neighbor speaking up here.

[elric]

Depends on how you look at it. According to Wikipedia, Germany ranks 41st in a list countries by population density, with 233/km2. But not many other countries its size (or bigger) have more. Japan, India & Vietnam seem to be the only ones.

[devdas]

The Netherlands is densely rural. Actual high density would easily be 5x as much.