Hello @melbourneswest, congrats in advance for being able to build your own dream home. I think you're on the right track to gaining more outdoor space and a brilliant design initiative to have a bike path access to the city.
"Whereas today it is more about the internet-connected and your own private place to be able to work and study."
I have noticed a shift in planning residences lately. More and more clients need to create study rooms at home even libraries for parents' use and the kids. There was a recent house layout that I saw with multiple study rooms dedicated for each child. At the moment we don't have this luxury as we're using our dining table as a workspace.
Where we are, being in the countryside, the blocks of land are subdivided into larger sizes, agricultural sizes.
Oh yes it is extremely hard working off your kitchen table. The plans of my first home in the post shows how small we had to work with. I was working off the kitchen table.
The Home we are building has a study down stairs which is large enough for a library. Instead of a theatre room we will have a sitting room. This will help when we have visitors and meetings. I didn't want a theatre I thought they were pointless. However they do have insulated walls so maybe might have been good to do that.
Upstairs will also have a lounge and a corner study in it. Only small and in our main bedroom there is a walk in robe which is quite large and I can set up an office in there. I'm thinking I will need a separate location as the kids get older or for my wife away from everyone.
The world is changing and it will be a more at home version of it.
Perhaps you could have a concealed motorized projector screen so you could convert your library/sitting room into a Theatre with comfy sofas that could be used for entertaining and lounging? Just a thought since you already have insulated walls. Yes, it's always good to have your own private office set up separate from the kids whenever possible.