Eight, Nine, Ten and Eleven Step Sesame Wheelchair Lift Examples
Chulmleigh Community College, Devon
When this College was chosen as the site for the development of a typical “classroom of the future” the planners needed to identify a solution for disabled access over short /medium rise nine steps and asked Sesame if we had the answer. The result was a Sesame which was able to reach a height of 1.4m.
Although it presented a new challenge this was met by some strategic redesign and the Sesame is an integral part of what is envisaged for education facilities in the future. When the children first saw the Sesame in action they were amazed that their nine steps moved, they had not realized they had been running up and down a wheelchair lift.
Vanilla Ice Cream Parlor, Bridlington
At this Ice Cream Parlor in East Yorkshire you can see the owner understandably wanted as much seating space as possible to accommodate as many customers as they can. The Sesame System aloud the client to maximise the amount of usable space, provide for a ten step chairlift to take wheelchair users up to and down from the 1st floor toilets and seating area, all without having an impact on the visual style of the shop.
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This disabled access lift has a rising barrier at the top landing, a rising barrier on the lift, and handrails that rise with the lift. All platforms that travel over 1 meter must fully enclose the wheelchair user with rising barriers, handrails or gates.
The National Trust, New Inn Farm, Stowe
New Inn Farmhouse and its associated farm buildings is a grade II* listed building which sits within the Stowe Conservation Area and within the Registered Historic Park and Garden. It is also a Building at Risk. AVDC have been working with The National Trust and the Buckinghamshire Historic Buildings Trust to see the building repaired. This bespoke Sesame System provided wheelchair access bridging the eight steps rise in the reception area at New Inn, with stone clad retracting stairs that reveal a platform lift.
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New Inn Farm is one of the earliest buildings associated with the creation of Stowe, arguably the greatest example of English landscape gardening. Its links with Stowe, both historically and physically, make it a particularly interesting building. It was designed by Thomas Harris and the quality of its design and construction is high. Added to this is the interest of the early 19th Century refitting, including a number of internal features of note. The survival of inns built for great estates is not unique, but the others tend to be on through roads. New Inn was only on the road to Stowe, before this was diverted to allow the gardens to be expanded. It is remarkably complete and a very interesting survival of an unusual building.
