Oakhurst Gardens, Oakhurst
Client: Advantage Care
Architect: IDG Architects
Builder: Cockram Construction
Cost: $22M
Project: Two Storey Aged Care Facility
Oakhurst Gardens is a residential aged care facility consisting of 112 beds spread across two-storeys, with a basement level comprising
of carparking, back of house facilities for kitchen and laundry purposes as well as communal spaces for outdoor dining and gardening activities.
The basement structure covers half of the overall gross floor area with shoring only required along one boundary due to the sharp slope of the natural ground.
The ground floor design to the south of the site consisted of a stiffened raft bearing onto screw piles at beam intersections.
Consideration was given to the unbalanced lateral earth pressures due to the asymmetric shoring, inducing permanent overturning moments to the reinforced concrete cores walls.