Year 9 & 10 IDU: There's No Place Like Home: Criterion B - Resources

BUILDING REQUIREMENTS

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Overall internal size

Houses and units are to provide fully enclosed covered areas in the following ranges:

One Bedroom                          Min to 50m²

Two Bedroom                          75m² to 80m²

Three Bedroom                     87m² to 92m²

Four Bedroom                         105m² to 110m²

Five Bedroom                          approx. 125m²

Sustainability

All electric – no gas cooking, heating, hot water

Solar panels if possible

Use of quality natural or recycled materials

Cross ventilation if possible rather than electric air conditioning

Orientation

If possible:

1. 1. 1. 1. 1.  
2. principal living area orientation to the north;
   1. minimisation of west facing glazing (windows);
   2. protection of windows from direct summer sun;

Bathrooms

One bedroom dwellings shall be provided with an adaptable combined bathroom, toilet, and laundry with shower only, i.e. no bath is required.

For two or more bedroom dwellings a bathtub will also be provided which is separate to the shower recess.

Two and three bedroom dwellings shall have an adaptable bathroom with a separate toilet. The laundry will be located within a dedicated laundry cupboard within the dwelling. In order to reduce the initial size of the adaptable bathroom, the design will allow for removal of the bathtub to make the bathroom accessible, i.e. the accessible bathroom will only have a shower once adapted.

Also include space for mirror and towel rails

Vanity units in each bathroom to contain storage space

Modifications for accessibility

Hand-rails for toilet and shower

Easy access shower with room for seat

Turning circle space for wheelchairs/walking frames

Multi-dwelling buildings (e.g. apartments)

Entry foyers

Communal spaces

Lifts/stairs

Parking

Off-street car parking for one car per dwelling shall be provided.

For multilevel unit developments a car parking space to cater for residents with a disability shall be provided for each accessible unit. Accessible car parking shall be designed to ensure a continuous path of travel from the vehicle parking area to the front entry of each unit.

Where practicable for multilevel unit developments, a clear line of sight from a well-lit vehicle drop-off point to a safe pedestrian entry point should be provided.

Living/dining room

Open plan preferred as it is space efficient

Bedrooms

Bedrooms shall not be accessed directly from another bedroom, kitchen or utility area.

Bedrooms shall not have borrowed light (i.e. need their own windows).

The first bedroom must be designed to optimise wheelchair access and provide space for either two single beds (2000mm long x 900mm wide) or one queen size bed (2030mm long x 1530mm wide).

Each further bedroom shall capable of accommodating two single beds and sufficient storage to meet the needs of two children.

Floor to ceiling built-in wardrobes (600 mm deep) with hanging rod, shelves and drawer insert with sliding doors shall be provided in each bedroom.

Kitchens

Choose most efficient L, U or I shaped.

Sufficient work bench areas (appropriate for the size of the household) shall be provided, the surface of which shall be suitable for the preparation of food including a minimum of 800mm in length located adjacent to the oven or cooktop

Where practicable, one microwave alcove shall be provided per kitchen measuring no less than 580mm wide x 400mm high x 560mm deep.

Where a sink or work bench abuts a wall it shall have an impervious splashback.

Cooktops are required to have an impervious splashback to the underside of the rangehood.

All sinks shall be stainless steel and have a minimum single drainer.

A minimum 1800mm high x 900mm wide x 650mm deep space is required for a refrigerator.

Dwellings connected to electricity only shall be provided with a built in 600mm stainless steel or white enamel electric cooktop with four cooking zones and a built in 600mm electric oven in stainless steel or white enamel finish with separate griller and oven compartments. Both cooktop and oven shall have a minimum two year manufacturer’s warranty. 

Cooktops shall be located at least 450mm from any corner of a room or doorway with sufficient clearance provided to facilitate cleaning.

Laundry

An area for laundry facilities shall be provided to every dwelling in accordance with 5.6.

In all adaptable dwellings allow sufficient circulation space for a client with disabilities to approach all appliances and cupboards.

Each laundry cupboard, or laundry area located within a bathroom, shall be appropriately vented and shall contain the following facilities:

A stainless steel laundry trough with a 200 mm high impervious splash back (preferably ceramic tiling), hot and cold water taps, an overflow suds bypass and washing machine waste outlet.

Space for a washing machine (700 mm wide x 700 mm deep) adjacent to the trough with hot and cold washing machine taps located so that either a front or top loading washing machine may be installed. Taps to not impede on eventual placement of washing machine,

Laundries shall be located on the ground floor wherever practicable. Wherever practicable, the clothesline shall be able to be accessed without passing over carpeted areas.

One external clothesline, either rotary clothes hoist or paraline type, shall be provided for each dwelling with private open space with a minimum effective clothesline length of:

1. 1. 1. 1. 1.  
2. 1 bedroom dwellings          15 metres
   4. 2 or more bedrooms           30 metres

A rotary clothes line is preferred for larger units, however where space constraints exist a folding frame clothesline with an effective length of 30m is acceptable.

For apartment dwellings a folding clothes horse with a minimum effective clothesline length of 8 metres may be provided.

Wherever practicable, the clothesline shall be able to be accessed from the laundry without the need to pass over carpeted areas.

Linen and cleaning storage

A separate cupboard for the storage of linen and cleaning utensils (linen cupboard and broom cupboard) appropriate to the size of the dwelling shall be provided to all dwellings.  Large enough for vacuum cleaner and ironing board.

Doors and windows

If additional natural light is required, a fixed glazed highlight located above the doorway is preferred to sidelights or glazed panels.

All doors of a dwelling on an exit or escape path shall be readily openable without a key (at all times) from the side that faces a person exiting the dwelling.

Security doors to be provided to the front and all rear entries of dwellings.

Metal flywire screens are required to all openable windows.

Floors

Carpet to be provided to all bedrooms and optional for living areas. Hard floor path between front and rear door. All other areas to have vinyl sheet flooring: corridors, kitchen and dining area, and non-slip vinyl in the bathroom(s), laundry and toilet(s).

Lighting

All dwellings shall have the following light outlets and fittings:

1. 1. 1. 1. 1.  
   2. Front entrance, external                      1
      6. Rear entrance, external                       1

In multi-unit developments vandal proof security lighting shall be provided to those communal areas that are used by different households and the public such as car parks, pathways, foyers, stairwells and communal facilities. 

Heating

For dwellings connected to electricity only, reverse cycle air conditioning is the preferred primary source of heating to main living area only.

Open fireplaces, slow combustion wood heaters or other combustion heaters are not to be used.

Hot water

Hot water units are to be located as close as practicable to the hot water outlets. External, storage model hot water services are preferred where practicable.