2.3 Design Criteria for Adaptable Housing July 2014.indd - DCSI

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2.3 HOUSING SA UNIVERSAL HOUSING DESIGN CRITERIA 2 Inside the House Within the house the rooms, corridors and doors should be sized and arranged to enable a person in a wheelchair to readily move through the house and use all facilities. To ensure this can be achieved, the following are required: Steps No steps inside the house. All floor surfaces are to finish at the same height. The bathroom floor should be set 8mm above general floor level to allow for future carpet. Power points General Purpose Outlets (GPO) should be in the range 450mm to 600mm above floor level. Kitchen power points should be a maximum of 1100mm above floor level. range: 900mm to 1100mm lever handle INTERNAL light swith. (not architrave swithces) power point range: 450mm to 600mm lock lever handle EXTERNAL 200mm 900mm Figure 6: Universal Heights Doors Universal housing must provide a minimum of 800mm clear opening door width on all doorways. An 870mm door leaf can meet this requirement. (Refer to Table 1 for further details). External and internal swing doors should comply with the following: • Sliding doors, if used, should have an 800mm clear opening clearance; • For external doors, allowance must be made for both an internal swing door and an external screen or safety door. Door handles Should be the lever type, not knobs, eg Lockwood 930 or 950 series or similar. • The centre lines to all door handles, locks and latches and light switches need to be in the 900mm to 1100mm range above floor levels. • For external doors with separate locks, handles should be mounted at 900mm and locks at 1100mm. © Crown Copyright Government of South Australia 12 Housing Design Guidelines Valid until July 2014
2.3 HOUSING SA UNIVERSAL HOUSING DESIGN CRITERIA 2 Table 1: Housing SA Swing Door Swing Clearances Door Leaf Clear Opening Door Width Offset at Latch side 870mm 800mm minimum preferred 480mm 820mm 760mm minimum 300mm Sliding 800mm minimum Not required for Housing SA projects Notes: (i) The latch side offset is only required on the swing side of doors in Housing SA housing. (ii) A typical example of an acceptable 820mm door leaf would be an upper story townhouse not accessible to a wheelchair, or a walk up ‘City Living‘ apartment. offset clear opening CORRIDOR 1000mm minimum 1350mm clear Figure 8: Entry Corridor Door Swing Clearances offset. To enable reach offset linen 1000mm CORRIDOR offset Clear opening door width. (door stop to projecting hardware) Figure 7: Door swing clearances and offset requirements Clear opening door width. (door stop to door leaf) Living Room, Dining Room and Family Room Because of circulation requirements for wheelchairs in these spaces and the need to minimise corridors, it is likely that in smaller dwellings some or all of these spaces will need to be combined. In the living area, space for a wheelchair turning circle of 1500mm must be accommodated within the furnishing layout. Generally the living room, dining room or family room should have a door to the external living space. If a full height aluminium sliding window is used it will need to be set down into a rebate so that door track can be crossed by a wheelchair. Corridors Should be 1000mm minimum width and wide enough to allow the side approach widths as shown. These are best limited or avoided altogether. offset Figure 9: Corridor Door Swing Clearances offset clear opening CORRIDOR 1000mm minimum Figure 10: Corridor Door Swing Clearances location of wall or furnishings. © Crown Copyright Government of South Australia 13 Housing Design Guidelines Valid until July 2014
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