When Accessibility Meets Practical Design: A Performance Solution at Moore Park

At Moore park, there are several stairs & ramps. Among them is a stair which connects walkways at different levels. The direction of the stairs is perpendicular to the direction of the walkways.

According to the sandards, handrails at stairs must extend beyond the stair flight to improve accessibility and safety. The standard requires:

• 300 mm extension beyond the landing nosing at the top, and
• The going of the first tread + 300 mm extension at the bottom.

However, extending the handrail rail would protrude in the walkway & could cause collision hazard or reduce the effective width of the walkway.

To avoid this, the handrail extension was omitted. The architect has marked this as performance solution & this is one of the few cases where this 300mm extension does not apply.