If you decide to build a house in which there will be housing under the roof, then you need a house with an attic. Before embarking on its construction, you have to think about what will be the layout of the house with an attic.
Advantages and disadvantages
Such buildings have their advantages, but there are also disadvantages. The layout of a
house with an attic implies a more budgetary project by saving money on building materials. Attic is cheaper due to the uselessness of
wall material (brick or blocks) and external decoration. Of course, there are some disadvantages of such houses: it is sloping ceilings, and the difficulty in arranging furniture, and the higher cost of windows, but all these disadvantages are fully compensated by the advantages of the attic. It can be attractive for its geometry of walls, the peculiarity of window openings, the presence of decorative beams and ceilings, various niches. All this makes such a room unique, gives a large number of interesting solutions in the interior that will make this room no less comfortable for living.
Layout Features
The layout of the house with an attic has its own design features that distinguish it from the layout of the house with one level and making
its almost double story. When designing a house with an attic, one should take into account the rational arrangement of door and window openings, the shape of the piers, the venue of communications. In the
attic you can make a layout for open studios or for ordinary living rooms, it all depends on the customers of the house project. When designing the roof, it should be remembered that if the installation angle of the rafters is 45 degrees, then about one and a half meters of
living space is lost
. The attic room visually becomes more spacious with a large
angle of inclination of the roof. The layout of a house with an attic involves the design of several complex elements. These include, first of all, the staircase. Since the attic is most often used as a sleeping room, the load on the staircase will be small, which makes it possible to save the area of the first floor and install a staircase of small width with a small area between the marches or
spiral staircase. The layout of a 10x10 house with an attic significantly depends on the placement of light openings, because the dimensions suggest the presence of several rooms, which makes it difficult to conduct lighting through the pediments. In the layout of houses of this size, partitions are based on load-bearing walls, so the location of the lower floors directly depends on the attic itself. The same applies to the situation if the
layout of the house is 9x9 with an attic.
Effective area
The usable area of the attic is determined by the selected type of roof. The attic will also depend on this: broken or triangular, symmetrical or one-sided, whether it will protrude beyond the outer walls of the house. If it is assumed that the attic will protrude beyond the outer walls, there is a need for the construction of additional walls for the support or columns.