Plenitude Melo Alves

History

Plenitude Melo Alves belongs to LIV Inci, a São Paulo developer formed by the Camargo family in partnership with the Rio Grande do Sul house Kopstein, which already carries two neighbouring addresses on the same stretch — Clarai and Serenai, both on Rua da Consolaçãoi. The house’s thesis repeats here and gains scale: one author per building, few very large units, and a plot large enough that the project doesn’t need to squeeze against the boundary. The author is Marcio Kogani, with the Studio MK27 team, also responsible for the interiors and the curation of the common areas; the landscaping is by Rodrigo Oliveirai.

The developer states an expected delivery of 2029, and construction was under way in August 2026; the year is not fixed here while construction has not concluded.

• Concept: plenitude as the absence of lack — the brief is to give the residences the ease of floor area, ceiling height and land that the Jardins block does not normally allow.
• Curiosities: there are 75 metres of frontage onto Rua Doutor Melo Alves, in a stretch where the municipality’s tax register still lists the original lots separately — number 555 corresponds to a plot recorded without a door number, between 549 and 561. The gym occupies the 22nd storey, with panoramic views, instead of the podium.

Architecture and aesthetics

The line is that of Studio MK27i: Brazilian modernism reread with formal simplicity and an obsession with detail, in a single tall tower rather than several low blocks. The 3,038.92 m² plot holds a single volume, four underground car park levels and a podium that opens space for a private grove, a grassed children’s court and the leisure floor. The interiors and the furniture curation of the common areas are by the office itself, and the landscaping is by Rodrigo Oliveirai, who treats vegetation as an extension of the architecture rather than a finish applied to it. Typologies range from garden units to duplex and triplex penthouses, passing through two types in standard and enlarged versions.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower of 44 storeys, on a 3,038.92 m² plot with 75 metres of frontage.
• Floor areas: residences from 530 to 1,560 m², in garden, type A and type B typologies (standard and enlarged), duplex penthouse and triplex penthouse.
• Parking spaces: 5 to 8 spaces, across four basement levels, with large-sized spaces and infrastructure for electric cars.
• Structural highlights: four underground car park levels; offices with private entrance; armoured lobby; gym on the 22nd storey with panoramic views; private grove at the podium.
• Registry and parameters: plot 3,038.92 m² · frontage 75 m · 1 tower · 44 storeys · private areas from 530 to 1,560 m² · 5 to 8 parking spaces · four basement levels · registry jurisdiction 13º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi · zoning ZEU. (Launch: registry parameters to be consolidated at the completion registration.)

Leisure and facilities

• Pool with a covered 25-metre lane
• Shared spa, with dry sauna, wet sauna, massage room, flotation tank and hot and cold plunge pools
• Full gym, with a pilates studio and a cycling studio
• Function room
• Kids’ area with a playroom and outdoor playground
• Grassed children’s court
• Private grove
• Beauty space
• Delivery space with fridges and lockers for parcel collection
• Offices with private entrance

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Cerqueira César: the address

Melo Alvesi is a short, tree-lined cross street running between Consolaçãoi and Estados Unidosi, in the part of Cerqueira Césari that the market simply calls Jardinsi: the shops of Oscar Freirei one block away, the low-rise houses of Jardim Américai just ahead, and a residential block that over the last two decades has been trading houses for small-unit buildings. What sets this address apart from its neighbours is legal before it is architectural: the plot sits in ZEU — the structuring-axis zone for urban transformation, created to densify the area around transport corridors — and it is this zoning that authorises a 44-storey tower where the block next door tops out at ten. It is worth reading both sides: the same rule that gives this building an irreplicable height on the block is the one that changes the scale of the street, and whoever buys here also buys that change. On the other side of the ledger, it is the zoning that guarantees the permanent high view and the land ease that the neighbouring plots, bound to the common height limit, cannot offer.