EZ Parque da Cidade

History

EZ Parque da Cidade is the residential sector of Parque da Cidade, the largest mixed-use complex in São Paulo — an entire-block plan of 81,000 square metres bringing together offices, a hotel, a mall and an open park on the border of Chácara Santo Antônioi with the Berrini–Chucri Zaidan axis. Sector D fell to Ezteci: 8,955 m² of land, two towers, 244 apartments. The incorporation record was registered at the 11º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi back in 2015; the product launched in 2019 and was delivered in 2023.

The decision that defines the development was one of design, not of floor area: Eztec hired UNStudioi, the Dutch firm led by Ben van Berkel, and presents it as the firm’s first project in South America. The design starts from a pinwheel — the apartments rotate around the buildings’ core, so that neighbouring floors do not repeat the same view.

• Concept: the floor plan rotates. By rotating the units around the core, the project gives each apartment a different slice of the skyline instead of four identical slivers of the same horizon.
• Curiosities: the complex is served by underground, vacuum-based waste collection — waste travels through pipes to a central point, with no truck circulating between the towers, a solution practically unheard of in Brazilian residential developments. The development also carried out the AQUA process for high environmental quality, and the Icon Tower, at about 134 metres, is the taller of the two.

Architecture and aesthetics

UNStudioi‘s gesture lies in the twist. The slabs shift around the core like the blades of a pinwheel, and the result is a façade that reads differently depending on the hour and the angle — alternating solids and voids, aluminium and glass guardrails, no literal repetition between floors. The two towers are not twins: the Icon is about 134 metres and 39 floors; the Epic, about 125 metres and 36 floors. The landscaping is by Sergio Santanai, who designed the Sky Gardens — the garden-wrapped leisure areas occupying the intermediate floors — and the interior architecture of the common areas is by Triptyque Architecturei. In the lobbies, the MYchair armchairs, designed by UNStudio itself, received colours drawn from the vegetation of each Sky Garden, giving each hall its own identity.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 2 towers, 244 units in total — Icon Tower with 128 apartments across 39 floors and Epic Tower with 116 apartments across 36 floors; 4 units per floor.
• Sizes: in the Epic Tower, standard units of 134 m² (2 suites) and 162 m² (3 suites), duplexes of 213 m² (3 suites) and 270 m² (4 suites). In the Icon Tower, standard units of 196 m² (4 bedrooms, 2 suites) and 227 m² (4 suites), duplexes of 327 m² and 365 to 366 m², both with 4 suites.
• Parking: 2 to 4 in the standard units and 4 to 6 in the duplexes.
• Structural highlights: 8,955.24 m² plot · height of about 134 m (Icon) and 125 m (Epic) · 6 lifts per tower (4 social with access control and 2 for service/security) · private social hall per apartment · generator for all units and common areas · electric vehicle charging infrastructure · underground, vacuum-based waste collection · rainwater harvesting and reuse · AQUA process for high environmental quality.
• Registry and parameters: 8,955.24 m² plot · 2 towers · 36 and 39 floors · 244 units · 4 per floor · 6 lifts per tower · 2 to 4 suites · 2 to 6 parking spaces · private areas of 134 m² to 366 m² · launch 2019 · delivery 2023 · registry jurisdiction 11º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi · Mixed Zone (ZM) zoning.

Leisure and facilities

• Sky Gardens — leisure areas wrapped in gardens
• Heated indoor 25-metre pool
• Adult pool with linear fibre-optic lighting
• Children’s pool
• Fitness and Gym Garden designed by Cia Athleticai
• Decorated, climate-controlled social common areas
• Wi-Fi in the social areas
• Private social hall per apartment
• Social lifts with access control
• Lobby with security glass
• Driver’s room
• Generator for the units and common areas
• Electric vehicle charging infrastructure

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Chácara Santo Antônio: the address

Chácara Santo Antônioi is the neighbourhood that the business-focused South Zone surrounded without managing to swallow. It was born residential, with short streets and wide-plot houses between Avenida Santo Amaroi and the river, and became squeezed between two office axes — Berrini to the east and Chucri Zaidan to the west. The result is a useful anomaly: residents here work on foot or five minutes away, in one of the country’s largest stocks of office space, and return to a core that is still a neighbourhood. The Chucri Zaidani and Vila Cordeiroi stations, on Line 9-Emerald, and Estação Berrini serve the surrounding area; Brooklini lies on the other side of the avenue. The Parque da Cidade complex itself added to the neighbourhood what it didn’t have: a public park, a mall, a hotel and a plaza — without residents needing to cross an avenue to reach them.