Altos Cidade Jardim

History

Altos Cidade Jardim is by FFii, a developer that specialised in the highest standard of the Cidade Jardimi region and became known for the family house model — the customisable condominium house, delivered for the owner to sign off with their own architect. Here the house is vertical: the company applies the same concept to a building, seeking, in the words of the official material, “all the advantages of living in an apartment, with the particularities that only a house offers”.

The result is a building of extremely low density by São Paulo standards: fourteen units in total, with areas ranging from 269 to 901 m² and the declared possibility of joining two floors into a duplex. It is the opposite of stock logic — the product is organised to suit the family that does not want to leave the horizontal house, but wants the security and maintenance of a vertical condominium.

• Concept: family house, vertically — flexible floor plans, a private lift per unit and landscaping treated as part of the façade.
• Trivia: the developer offers the joining of units into a duplex as a design option, not as a later renovation; the common areas are delivered equipped and decorated according to the descriptive memorandum.

Architecture and aesthetics

The façade was designed with greenery built into it: the landscaping is not a garden at ground level, but part of the composition of the volume, with a green terrace on every residence. The floor plans are flexible by design — the developer presents them in fourteen boards of options — and range from three to four en-suite bedrooms, with the duplex joining available for those who want two full floors.

The comfort principle is stated in the descriptive memorandum: acoustic insulation with a special underlay on the floor of the private areas and acoustic ceiling in the bathrooms, to dampen noise between floors and in the pipework; infrastructure prepared for air conditioning; and a private lift landing inside each unit. In the common areas, an armoured gatehouse with a property security design, a power generator, a rainwater reservoir and individual electric car charging points.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 14 units. The number of floors and units per floor are not published in an official source; the developer states the option of joining two floors into a duplex.
• Areas: from 269 to 901 m², with 3 or 4 en-suite bedrooms.
• Parking: from 3 to 6.
• Structural highlights: private lift per residence · green terrace in every unit · landscaping integrated into the façade · acoustic insulation in floor and ceiling · infrastructure for air conditioning · armoured gatehouse with a property security design · generator · rainwater reservoir · individual electric car charging points · common areas delivered equipped and decorated.
• Registry and parameters: registry jurisdiction 18th São Paulo Property Registryi. (Launch: plot area, height limit and other registry parameters to be consolidated at the completion registration.)

Leisure and facilities

• Heated pool
• Solarium
• Massage room
• Beauty Center
• Life Fitness
• Sauna
• Meeting room
• Generator
• Electric car charging points

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Cidade Jardim: the address

Two names for the same address

The lot sits on the border between Cidade Jardim and Morumbi, and both names are legitimate. The postcode registers Morumbi; the high-end market treats the address as Cidade Jardim. This entry adopts the name in use and keeps the other for anyone who searches for it.

Cidade Jardimi is one of the few pockets of São Paulo where the house has never lost out to the tower: curved, tree-lined streets with local traffic, laid out in the 1940s over hillside terrain that made dense subdivision difficult and ended up preserving the neighbourhood. The address sits in the upper part of this cluster and answers to three anchors that define life in the quadrant — Shopping Cidade Jardimi, Clube Paineiras do Morumbii and Parque Alfredo Volpii — with Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Limai and Marginal Pinheirosi handling the route to the rest of the city. The development carries Cidade Jardim in its name and that is how the market treats it; the postcode for number 136 registers Morumbi, the administrative district that contains Cidade Jardim — the two readings describe the same hillside.