Guided tour of Christie Walk Ecocity development

This unique urban community of 27 dwellings includes apartments, standalone strawbale houses, and townhouses.

Sustainable design features include:

• passive solar design
• photovoltaic cells with battery storage
• solar hot water – flat plate and evacuated tubes
• composting
• underground stormwater storage
• community spaces – meeting room, laundry, bike shelter, produce garden, roof garden

Christie Walk was purpose-built as a model ecocity development. It’s designed to showcase how biodiversity, low emissions and community-living can be fashioned into a vibrant and verdant inner-city development.

https://www.urbanecology.org.au/