Four elliptical towers named after Newton, Kepler, Cassini and Galileo will bring 600 apartments to Waterfall City, in a design that moves away from the conventional rectangular apartment block.
Four towers named for scientists
Ellipse Waterfall is the first high-rise luxury apartment development in Waterfall City, planned as a 45,000m² precinct of 600 apartments once complete, with leisure and lap pools and landscaped gardens. Designed by dhk Architects for developers Attacq and Tricolt, its four towers, Newton, Kepler, Cassini and Galileo, share an identical elliptical footprint but differ in height, an efficient shape chosen for its ratio of surface area to internal volume and for reducing the towers' visual profile when seen from nearby buildings.
Construction of the first two towers, the 10-storey Newton and 11-storey Kepler, began in November 2019, with the flagship 16-storey Cassini tower and its Luna Club amenity following in a second phase, and Galileo planned for the final phase. A curvilinear façade combining movable and fixed screens animates the towers' elevations as the sun and season change, and the development is targeting 4-Star Green Star SA certification.
"Ellipse Waterfall won a SAPOA Residential Development Award, recognised for its unconventional elliptical form in a market still dominated by rectangular apartment towers."
Spoormaker's role
Spoormaker & Partners was the mechanical engineer on the project, working alongside Arup on structural, civil and façade engineering and Sutherland on fire and wet services.