Apartment for Sale in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Eco-City Apartments

Located in the heart of Adelaide, these city apartments are the Third Stage of the world renowned Eco-City Development, Christie Walk. 8 Apartments are now available for sale off the plan and are due for completion in September 2005.

The apartments are compact, energy efficient, and designed to accommodate modern living.

The overall apartment block is a square divided into four apartments, with a light well, stairs and lift access through the centre. At ground level there is one apartment, with the rest of the ground floor being community access and community space. There are four apartments on each of the first and second floors. The third floor has two slightly larger apartments and two with upper levels, creating two-storey penthouses. The two penthouses have two bathrooms and either three well sized bedrooms with one large eating/living area, or two bedrooms and two living areas. They also each have a balcony and a roof top patio.

Fresh air is brought into the core of the building to enable cross-ventilation, with the air supply cooled by automatically-operated central evaporative coolers in hot weather.

Construction is steel framed with concrete slab floors providing thermal mass and aerated concrete panel cladding with added insulation for a higher-than-average overall thermal (and acoustic) performance.

Internally, finishes are of high quality with sound insulation in excess of building code requirements. Floor finishes are tile and Marmoleum (consistently rated as a top ‘green’ flooring material). Recycled timbers are used throughout.

The apartments are single aspect and have generally high levels of natural light with task lighting in the kitchen areas. The light well provides natural light and ventilation to the building’s heart, cascading with vegetation, making the entry experience pleasant and welcoming.

All storm water is collected from the building for use on site. Solar hot water is augmented by central gas-fired boilers and extensive photovoltaic arrays on the building’s main roof feed the grid-connected solar power system.

An on-site sewer mine, connected to the existing Christie Walk system, is planned to maximize water conservation and re-use.

Each of the two 3rd floor street frontage apartments have two balconies and a glazed bay that dramatically projects the central room (bedroom or study) out from the building façade.

Carparking can be leased at a City Council Carpark just across Sturt St.