Havva Higienópolis

History

Havva belongs to Alfa Realtyi, a developer that for more than twenty years has chosen the plot before choosing the product and works São Paulo’s green neighbourhoods — Alto de Pinheirosi, Higienópolisi and the Jardinsi — rather than the densification corridors. The firm’s operation began precisely in Higienópolis, with the pair Île de la Cité and Île de Soleili on Rua Minas Gerais; Havva returns to the founding neighbourhood with the most vertical product in the portfolio. The delivery is carried out with Helbori.

The project revives Alfa’s longest-running partnership: architecture and interiors are by the office of Patricia Anastassiadisi, who signs much of the developer’s portfolio; the landscaping is by Benedito Abbudi. The building’s thesis lies in the plot and the frontage — a single tower, one residence per floor, and a front facing the Pacaembu basin, land whose topography and consolidated occupation tend to preserve the horizon. The developer presented the development as an imminent launch; the delivery year is not fixed here while construction has not concluded.

• Concept: “the privilege of a life without frames” — a single tower, one flat per floor, and the view treated as programme, not bonus.
• Trivia: the penthouses are called suspended mansions — three duplexes, two of 641 m² and one of 634 m². The building has a SHABAT service lift.

Architecture and aesthetics

Patricia Anastassiadisi signs both layers here — architecture and interiors —, which is rare even within her own portfolio and produces continuity between the façade and the floor plan. The language is what the developer describes as timeless: no dated gestures, sober materiality and design resolved through proportion rather than ornament.

The structuring decision is density: one residence per floor, served by two private social lifts that open directly into the unit. Across twenty-six standard floors this means twenty-six families with an exclusive hall, with no shared corridor — and it is what allows the 352 m² to be a full-façade floor plan, with openings on all four orientations. The top holds the duplexes; the base, a garden unit of 473 m².

The landscaping is by Benedito Abbudi, who treats the podium and the grassed outdoor lounge as an extension of the lobby, and the common programme is deliberately restrained for the building’s size: fitness, pool with lounge and solarium, sauna with rest area, kids’ space, playground, games pub and gourmet lounge with outdoor terrace. This is small-neighbourhood leisure, not a club’s.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower, 33 floors (1 garden + 26 standard + 3 duplex), 30 units, 1 per floor.
• Sizes: 26 units of 352.58 m² · 1 garden of 473.32 m² · 3 duplexes (two of 641.24 m² and one of 633.74 m²). All with 4 suites.
• Parking: 4 in the standard unit, 5 in the duplexes.
• Structural highlights: one flat per floor · 2 private social lifts opening directly into the unit · 1 SHABAT service lift · duplex penthouses of 634 to 641 m² (“suspended mansions”) · garden unit of 473 m² · preserved view towards the Pacaembu horizon.
• Registry and parameters: registry jurisdiction 5th São Paulo Property Registryi. (Launch: plot area, height limit and other registry parameters to be consolidated upon the completion endorsement.)

Leisure and facilities

• Lobby
• Grassed outdoor lounge
• Delivery space
• Fitness
• Pool
• Pool lounge
• Solarium
• Sauna with rest area
• Kids’ space
• Playground
• Games pub
• Gourmet lounge
• Outdoor lounge

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Higienópolis: the address

Rua Bahia runs along the seam between Higienópolisi and Pacaembui — two neighbourhoods São Paulo built fifteen years apart and that today function as a single territory to live in. On one side, the civilised density of Higienópolis: Shopping Pátio Higienópolisi, Parque Buenos Airesi, Praça Vilaboimi, the traditional schools, the cafés and the service network that handles daily life on foot. On the other, the Pacaembu basin, whose valley topography and house-based occupation keep the horizon open — it is from there that the tower’s view comes. FAAPi and Mackenziei anchor the quadrant’s university life, and Avenida Angélicai connects the address to Avenida Paulistai, downtown and the West Zone. It is one of the city’s most consolidated addresses: almost everything that exists there already existed thirty years ago, and that is precisely the argument.