One bedroom apartment – Christie Walk
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House Notes – One bedroom apartment – Christie Walk
One bedroom apartment with north facing windows. Building is a 5-storey hebel block construction with 13 apartments. Also houses the Christie walk community room and community laundry.
Set in a unique urban community of 27 dwellings. The Christie Walk development includes apartments, standalone strawbale houses, and townhouses. The sustainable design features of Christie Walk, include passive solar design, photovoltaic cells, solar hot water, composting, underground stormwater storage and shared spaces (meeting room, laundry, bike shed, produce garden, roof garden). The development features community-focused built form, with gardens and pedestrian walkways running through the development.
Initiated by Urban Ecology Australia (UEA) in 1999 as a demonstration project, to promote nature and people friendly urban development by example, Christie Walk was completed in December 2006.
Sustainability Features
- Energy efficiency:
- Draught proofing
Efficient lighting
Efficient appliances
- Passive heating cooling:
- Cross ventilation
Deciduous planting around house
- Active heating cooling:
- Ceiling fans
Evaporative
- Water heating:
- Hot water heat pump
Solar hot water (evacuated tube)
- Water harvesting and saving features:
- Rainwater storage - Underground
Low flow shower heads
- Average water consumption per day:
- 130kL
- Underground rainwater storage type:
- cement tanks
- Underground rainwater storage Size:
- 2 x 22000 l for 27 dwellings
- Energy Efficient Lighting
- LED lights throughout
Natural daylight
- Energy Efficient Lighting
- Translucent photovoltaic panels
- Window Protection:
- External window hoods/surrounds
Honeycomb blinds
- Insulation Type:
- Under-roof
Ceiling
Internal walls
External walls
- Under Roof Insulation Type:
- Insulated panels
- External Walls Type:
- Insulated panel system
- All-Electric Home?
- Yes
- Renewable energy used:
- Energy storage/battery
Solar PV grid connect
- Total cost of home when constructed:
- completed 2006
- House Size
- 65m2
- Roof
- Metal (Colorbond)
- Wall Materials
- Hebel blocks
Lightweight construction (steel frame)
- Window and Door Types
- Clerestory windows
Double glazing
- Universal design accessability
- Multi-generational
Wheelchair accessible
- Universal Design Features
- Lever handles for doors (no knobs)
Lift/elevator
Shower head on rail for various heights
Washing machine/dryer on plynth for easy access
- Number of bedrooms
- 1
- Number of bathrooms
- 1
- Garden / Outdoors
- Bee keeping
Bird-nesting boxes
Community vegetable garden
Composting
Drip irrigation
Frog friendly
Green roof
Local indigenous plants
Native plants
Water wise plants
Worm farm
- Waste Reduction Practices:
- Compost all food scraps
Recycle
Swap with friends and neighbours
- Healthy home features
- Carpet free - tiles/concrete/timber flooring throughout
Indoor plants for air filtration
Low VOC paints/sealer/varnish
Natural light and ventilation
Natural oil sealer/finishes
VOC free paints/sealer/varnish
- Housing Type:
- Apartment
- Project Type:
- Continual Improvement
- Open with support of
- urban ecology australia
- Builder
- Tagara
- Designer
- Ecopolis
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