One Haus Alto de Pinheiros

History

One Haus was born from a rare arrangement in the São Paulo market: a group of close acquaintances who came together wanting to build their own compound. The development went to G.D8 Incorporadorai and the design to Jacobsen Arquiteturai — the team of Paulo and Bernardo Jacobsen. The plot was irregular, a T crossing two urban streets, and held a single old house surrounded by dozens of large trees. Instead of clearing the land and starting over, the practice worked from what was there: the existing trees defined the layout, and the access was pulled towards the quieter street, with the landscaping acting as a barrier against the busier road at the back.

• Concept: five houses identical in volume and different in position — rotated, mirrored and inverted — so that none looks into another.
• Curiosities: the T-shaped plot gives the condominium two street frontages and a single entrance. The garage is not underground: it sits beneath a slab covered by cantilevered planters, with room for up to thirty cars. More than seventy examples of the plot’s native vegetation were preserved, and the Portuguese pavement stone comes in through the gate and continues along the internal paths, without changing material.

Architecture and aesthetics

Each house is an L-shaped volume organised around a central courtyard — the solution that preserves the view and guarantees cross lighting and ventilation without one unit depending on another’s setback. The ground floor is almost entirely glazed and takes on the character of a pilotis, opening onto the garden; the upper volume has floor-to-ceiling glass frames, balustrades of the same material and fixed metal brise-soleils that shield the bathrooms from view. There are four storeys, but the ensemble reads horizontally: the rhythm of the volumes, the natural materials and the constant presence of greenery bring the architecture down to a domestic scale. In the common areas, timber slats cover the entire ceiling and clad the walls, echoing the houses’ front doors. Landscaping by Renata Tillii, who preserved the existing trees and stitched the spaces between the houses until the ensemble reads as a single volume; lighting design by Lightworksi.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 5 detached houses, four storeys each. There is no tower.
• Sizes: from 620 to 715 m² per residence, plus a private garden, pool and terrace of its own. Four suites per house, including the master with walk-in closets, showers and double basins.
• Parking: 6 per house; the shared garage holds up to thirty cars.
• Structural features: plot of 3,260 m² and 4,059 m² of built area; T-shaped plot with two street frontages and a single access via the quieter road; central linear axis organising pedestrian and vehicle circulation; garage beneath a garden slab, in place of the traditional basement; rooftop with gourmet terrace and sun deck; armoured guardhouse isolated from internal circulation, with dual activation at the entrance and internal CCTV.
• Registry and parameters: plot 3,260 m² · built area 4,059 m² · 5 units · 4 storeys per house · 4 suites · 6 parking spaces · private areas from 620 to 715 m² · completion 2021 · registry jurisdiction 10º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi.

Leisure and facilities

• Armoured guardhouse isolated from internal circulation
• Entrance with dual activation system
• Internal CCTV
• 24-hour reception
• Shared garage covered by a garden slab
• Landscaped central circulation axis
• Private pool in each house
• Gym in each house
• Gourmet terrace with sun deck in each house

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Alto de Pinheiros: the address

Alto de Pinheirosi is the neighbourhood where houses still rule and buildings are the exception — quiet streets, dense tree cover and a neighbourhood that resisted the west zone’s verticalisation. The greenery of Parque Villa-Lobosi is a few minutes away, as are Praça Panamericanai, Esporte Clube Pinheirosi and Shopping Villa-Lobosi. The connection to the rest of the city runs via Avenida Pedroso de Moraisi and Avenida Professor Fonseca Rodriguesi, and via Estação Pinheirosi, where metro Line 4 – Yellow meets CPTM Line 9 – Emerald.