Las Casas Cidade Jardim

History

By FFii, built by City Farxi, with architecture by Francisco Tornosi and landscaping by Roberto Riscalai, Las Casas Cidade Jardim is a gated development of just six high-end houses on Av. Amarilis. Each house is spread across four floors, with a leisure rooftop and a private pool, anchoring house-level privacy within a gated compound. The houses have not yet been delivered: the developer states the works are under way, already at the finishing stage, and for that reason the delivery year is not fixed here.

• Concept: the real house, vertical and private, in a development of very few units in Cidade Jardimi.
• Trivia: the project is also known as “Las Casas 22” or “Projeto 22”.

Architecture and aesthetics

A contemporary line in house format, designed by Francisco Tornosi. The approach responds to a constraint of the plot: in an exclusively residential zone, on a 1,552 m² plot with 50 m of street frontage, fitting six residences of over 500 m² each is only possible by stacking the house — a sunken garage, social living on the ground floor, bedrooms on the floor above and the rooftop returned as an elevated garden. None of them has a lift, and that absence has a design consequence: the staircase remains the domestic axis, as in a street-level house. Landscaping by Roberto Riscalai, who treats the garden as a painting meant to be seen as a whole, not brushstroke by brushstroke.

Aesthetics and scarcity

• Aesthetics: contemporary, house format.

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: development of 6 houses, with 4 floors each (basement garage, ground-floor living areas, first floor with en suites, and a rooftop with leisure area, gourmet space, private pool and sun deck).
• Sizes: from 532 to 698 m², with 3 en suites (master with walk-in closet).
• Parking: 4 spaces, with full staff quarters.
• Structural highlights: rooftop with private pool and sun deck for each house.
• Registry and parameters: plot 1,552 m² · street frontage 50 m · 6 houses · 3 floors per house · 3 bedrooms (en suite) · 4 parking spaces · 3 bathrooms · no lift · private area of 534 m² (standard) · registered with the 18º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi · ZER-1 zoning (Exclusively Residential Zone) · unrestricted building ratio · unrestricted height limit · development by FFI Investimentos e Participações.

Leisure and facilities

• Gym
• Pool
• Green area
• Armoured gatehouse

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Cidade Jardim: the address

Avenida Amarílis, Rua das Malvas, Avenida das Magnólias: the flower names announce the horizontal half of Cidade Jardimi — the garden-suburb neighbourhood of large plots and set-back houses that sits behind the mixed-use complex on Marginal Pinheirosi without merging with it. It is an exclusively residential zone: no towers, no street-level shops, the neighbourhood’s scale fixed by law rather than by neighbourly agreement. Parque Alfredo Volpii begins less than a hundred metres away, with its 142,000 m² of remaining Atlantic Forest, and The British College of Brazili sits on the next block. Shopping Cidade Jardimi is a little over a kilometre away — the right distance to serve the address without dictating it.