O Parque Brooklin

History

O Parque began as an urban-planning question before it became a real-estate product: what to do with a plot of almost four hectares wedged between Avenida Roque Petroni Júniori and Rua Jaceru, in the corporate heart of Brooklini. Gamaroi‘s answer was to open up the block’s interior. The masterplan, developed by Deise Marquesi together with SP Urbanismo and CET, created a new street — private, but open to public use — and set aside the centre of the plot for a freely accessible wooded park, with a lake, a stream, shops and a restaurant, around which the towers were built. The architecture went to Triptyquei, a Franco-Brazilian practice founded in 2000 by Carolina Bueno, Greg Bousquet, Guillaume Sibaud and Olivier Raffaelli, in partnership with Maison Edouard Françoisi; Itamar Berezini signed off on the project’s development. The landscaping is by Ricardo Cardimi, a botanist with a master’s degree from USP and creator of the Pocket Forest technique, who replanted native Atlantic Forest species that had disappeared from the area. The interiors of the Pétala and Folhagem towers are by Carlos Rossii, with show flats by Cristina Barbarai and Camila Kleini, and the lighting design is by Studio Serradurai.

• Concept: living inside a park open to the city — the opposite of the fortress condominium, in a neighbourhood that only knew how to build corporate towers.
• Curiosities: to make the crossing possible, the development opened a new street designed with SP Urbanismo and CET, with carriageway and pavement widths negotiated with the city. The 44-storey Pétala and Folhagem towers are among the tallest residential buildings in São Paulo’s south zone, with flats reaching around 149 metres in height. And the complex’s corporate tower, Orvalho, was sold to Brookfield, which operates it as commercial floor space for lease.

Architecture and aesthetics

Four independent towers around a green void — the layout is the design. Triptyquei‘s façades work the practice’s naturalistic signature: cut-away volumes, balconies with planters built into the frame, and a design that returns vegetation to every floor, rather than concentrating it only at ground level. In the larger residential towers’ floor plans, the master suite has an “L”-shaped window frame that opens natural light onto two faces; the utility terrace is separate from the social balcony, and each unit is reached by a private lift. Ricardo Cardimi‘s landscaping is not ornamental: it is the restoration of Atlantic Forest with native species, in a neighbourhood where the original forest had disappeared entirely.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 4 independent condominiums on a single plot — Pétala and Folhagem (residential, 44 storeys each), Cipó (aparthotel, the shortest tower) and Orvalho (corporate, commercial floors, owned by Brookfield). Plot of 38,252 m², of which around 10,000 m² is the park.
• Sizes: 167 and 197 m² in the Pétala and Folhagem towers, with 3 or 4 suites; 78 and 105 m² in the Cipó tower, with 2 or 3 suites. Units in circulation also include much larger duplex units at the top of the residential towers.
• Parking: 3 spaces plus a private storage unit in the 167 and 197 m² plans; 2 spaces in the 78 and 105 m² plans.
• Structural features: private lift per unit, “L”-shaped window frame in the master suite, motorised blinds in every bedroom, bedroom balconies with planters, utility terrace separate from the social balcony, dedicated laundry room, and a hot-water system in the kitchen in the smaller plans.
• Registry and parameters: plot 38,252 m² · 4 towers (3 residential and 1 corporate) · 44 storeys in the Pétala and Folhagem towers · park of around 10,000 m² · private areas from 78 m² to 197 m² in the standard plans · 2 to 4 suites · 2 to 3 parking spaces · delivery from 2023.

Leisure and facilities

• Atlantic Forest park with lake and stream, freely accessible
• Aquatic complex
• Covered, heated pool
• Adult pool
• Covered spa
• Massage room
• Dry sauna
• Gym
• Functional training gym
• Pilates studio
• Clay tennis court
• Football pitch
• Squash court
• Skate track
• Children’s sports court
• Play area
• Baby space
• Kids’ space
• Games room
• Table football
• Pub
• Sky lounge with fireplace
• Fireplace lounge
• Party room
• Dining hall
• Gourmet lounge
• Gourmet space
• Lounge with barbecue
• Rest area
• Restaurant and shops on the ground floor

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Brooklin: the address

Two names for the same address

The Post Office registers this stretch as Jardim das Acácias — a registration name almost no one uses. The market, residents and anyone looking here say Brooklin. This entry adopts the name in use: it is the one people search for, advertise under and buy by.

Brooklini is the neighbourhood where São Paulo went to work. Avenida Roque Petroni Júniori links Avenida Santo Amaroi to Marginal Pinheirosi and organises the quadrant that holds MorumbiShopping, Market Place, Shopping Nações Unidasi and the corporate spine of Berrini, Chucri Zaidan and Faria Limai — with the United States Consulate, the Brooklin metro station and Congonhas Airport within the same short radius. It is an address of impeccable logistics and, historically, little street life: almost all of the area’s residential stock was built after the offices, not before. It was exactly this gap that O Parque came to fill — giving greenery and pavement life back to a stretch of city that had only ever had a working-day pavement.