Villa Borghese

History

Villa Borghese occupies a 1,360 sqm lot on Alameda Ministro Rocha Azevedoi, in the stretch between Avenida Paulistai and Alameda Jaú — the section of the alameda that went vertical first, back when Cerqueira Césari was trading townhouses for large apartment buildings. The block today registers an unbroken sequence of condominium lots, and every immediate neighbour is a tower of the same lineage: Nobre Paulista at 373, Mansão da Vinci at 412, Plaza Regency at 482. The project’s authorship and the delivery year are not recorded in any verifiable public source — the listing portals register the field as not informed — and for that reason are not attributed here.

• Concept: a full floor plate on an alameda address — privacy solved by the floor plan, in a block that no longer has the land to repeat the equation.
• Curiosities: the lot is large for what the tower occupies. Of the 1,360 sqm plot, the tower’s footprint is only 365 sqm; the rest is a ground-floor annex and setback. It was that margin that later allowed, decades on, the whole block to be reclassified as an Urban Transformation Structuring Axis (ZEU) — the city’s most permissive zoning. The building ended up standing on one of the most buildable plots in Jardinsi.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single tower, set back from the alameda. The city registers the main body at 57.97 metres in height over a 365 sqm footprint, accompanied by a 392 sqm ground-floor annex and a smaller 72 sqm volume — the classic composition of the São Paulo residential building of the second half of the 20th century: a slender tower, a low base and a front garden. Since the footprint cannot fit two units of the size the building practices, each floor holds a single apartment: the lift opens straight into the family’s own hall and the floor plan runs the full width of the slab, with ventilation and light on all four faces.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 residential tower with a ground-floor annex, 1 apartment per floor.
• Floor areas: 329 to 348 sqm in the units currently on the market, with 3 to 4 bedrooms and up to 6 bathrooms.
• Parking: 3 in the standard floor plan, 4 in the larger units.
• Structural highlights: piped gas, ramp accessibility in the common areas and a green area facing the alameda.
• Registry and parameters: plot 1,360 sqm · 1 tower · 1 apartment per floor · 3 to 4 bedrooms · 3 to 4 parking spaces · private areas from 329 sqm to 348 sqm · tower footprint 365 sqm · measured height 57.97 m · registry jurisdiction 13º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi · zoning ZEU — Urban Transformation Structuring Axis (Law 16.402/2016).

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Cerqueira César: the address

Cerqueira Césari is the hinge between Avenida Paulistai and Jardinsi — the part of the city where the office, the hospital, the gallery and the home all fit within the same walking radius. Alameda Ministro Rocha Azevedoi runs through this core from end to end, and it is precisely in the lower stretch, closest to Avenida Paulistai, that it concentrates the large-format residential towers. From here it is a short walk to Conjunto Nacionali, Estação Consolaçãoi and Colégio Dante Alighierii; a few minutes by car to Club Athletico Paulistanoi and Rua Oscar Freirei. It is an address that depends on nothing new: the street grid, the street-level shops and the tree cover have been consolidated for more than half a century.