Maisonette
A maisonette (from the French maisonnette , “small house”, “little house”) is an apartment in German, in which the apartment is connected in at least two floors of a building. The maisonette can be located on the lower or upper floors of a building, but mostly it includes the roof and the floor below. Is the upper floor as a gallery built, is also a gallery apartment spoken.
While high fire protection requirements are placed on the stairwell in a residential building with several apartments (e.g. on the walls and doors), the stairs can stand freely in the apartment between the living rooms of a maisonette. The ceilings are also viewed differently from a fire protection point of view than between apartments, since the maisonette apartment is viewed as a unit of use. For this reason, in Germany, in maisonette apartments of a certain size above the ground floor, both floors must be connected to the stairwell (escape routes according to Section 33 of the model building regulations ). Since these are mostly larger apartments with a certain prestige character, the rental prices are often higher. Like a normal apartment in the roof truss , there are also sloping ceilings in the maisonette apartment, which can limit the usable area.
