Ocean Palace

History

Ocean Palace is the starting point of a well-documented race of vertical records that Balneário Camboriúi would rack up over the following decade. Completed in 2012 by FGi (FG Empreendimentos) — the developer and builder that would go on to hold most of the city’s record-breaking towers — it rose on the Avenida Atlântica seafront with an architectural height of 152.8 metres and 42 storeys, at the time one of the tallest in the city and the starting point of the ultra-high-end verticalisation that would come to define the Santa Catarina coastline.

After it, the same lineage produced Millennium Palacei (2014), Infinity Coast Toweri (2019), One Toweri (2022), Yachthouse by Pininfarinai (2023) and, under construction, Senna Toweri, designed to be the tallest exclusively residential building in the world. Ocean Palace is where this race begins.

• Concept: the seafront residential building that opened the era of FGi‘s ultra-high-end skyscrapers in Balneário Camboriúi.
• Curiosities: at 152.8 metres and 42 storeys, it was one of the first buildings in the city to pass the 150-metre mark, anticipating the scale that Avenida Atlântica would adopt as the norm over the following decade.

Architecture and aesthetics

Ocean Palace is a single reinforced-concrete residential tower, facing the sea on the first block of Avenida Atlântica. Its design responds to the regulatory logic that sculpted Balneário Camboriúi‘s skyline: the outorga onerosa (paid building-rights bonus) converts additional height into a payment to the municipality, and the front setback grows with elevation — the shading cone, calculated from an angle off the Avenida Atlântica axis, narrows the tower as it rises. The rule capping the maximum number of units per plot share pushes the product towards spacious flats and few units per floor.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: a single residential tower of 42 storeys, with 35 flats (CTBUH).
• Height: 152.8 metres of architectural height, confirmed by the CTBUH.
• Parking: dedicated garage at the base of the building.
• Structural features: reinforced-concrete structure · 20,492 m² of built area (CTBUH) · 3 lifts · seafront position on Avenida Atlântica.
• Registry and parameters: building condominium on the Balneário Camboriúi seafront, Avenida Atlântica · structure entirely in concrete · registry jurisdiction of Balneário Camboriú.

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Balneário Camboriú: the address

Balneário Camboriúi is not a neighbourhood: it is the Santa Catarina city that turned verticalisation into an economic project and ended up with the most recognisable skyline on the Brazilian coast — a continuous wall of towers facing a crescent-shaped beach. Avenida Atlântica, hugging the sand, is the most contested axis of this race, and it was there that FGi concentrated the generation of skyscrapers that made the city the country’s largest hub of residential towers. Density has a price — the wall of towers shades the beach in the late afternoon, and what can be built along the front is a permanent political issue in the city.