Zen Cyrela e Yoo

History

Zen is a development by Cyrelai in partnership with Yoo Studioi, the design studio founded by Philippe Starcki and John Hitchcox whose signature residences exist in several capitals. The name gives away the programme: the declared inspiration is zen, and the project pursues elegance through subtraction, not accumulation. The plot sits on Avenida Ibirapuera, on the corner with Rua Leopoldo de Bulhões, and the chosen orientation is the one that opens up the view of the park. It is a launch; this entry records the project and the address, not the history of a condominium that does not yet exist.

• Concept: “minimalist, pure essence” — the sensation of floating, with form, light and nature reduced to the essential.
• Trivia: the plot is a corner one, and so the development appears published sometimes under Avenida Ibirapuera, sometimes under Rua Leopoldo de Bulhões; it is the same plot, with two frontages. The official address declared by the developer is Avenida Ibirapuera, 617.

Architecture and aesthetics

The project’s signature is Yoo Studioi, which treats the residence as a signed design piece, and the most visible gesture of that signature here is the double-height lobby — the building spends height on the arrival, before any flat. The base spreads the leisure programme across two distinct registers: a collective one, with a function room, tennis court and covered pool with a 25-metre lane, and an almost domestic one, the private houses and the private pool house, smaller-scale spaces for reserved use. The 277 m² floor plans unfold into options that swap the fourth suite for an intimate room or for an enlarged living room and kitchen — the same footprint, three ways of living.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Sizes: 277 m² and 320 m², with 3 or 4 suites. The 277 m² plan has a standard version with 4 suites and two options with 3 suites (one with an intimate room and a master with his-and-hers bathrooms, another with an enlarged living room and kitchen); the 320 m² plan has a standard version with 4 suites and an intimate room and an option with 3 suites and enlarged rooms.
• Parking: 3 to 4.
• Structural highlights: double-height lobby, private houses and private pool house for reserved use, and a corner-plot layout oriented towards the park view.
• Registry and parameters: private areas of 277 to 320 m² · 3 to 4 suites · 3 to 4 parking spaces · registry jurisdiction 14th São Paulo Property Registryi · zoning ZEUP. (Launch: number of units, floors and plot area to be consolidated in the incorporation memorandum.)

Leisure and facilities

• Tennis court
• Recreational court
• Covered pool with a 25-metre lane
• Outdoor pool
• Children’s pool
• Private pool house
• Solarium
• Spa
• Sauna
• Gym
• Function room
• Teen games room
• Teen space
• Children’s playroom
• Playground

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Ibirapuera: the address

Two names for the same address

The plot sits on the border between Ibirapuera and Indianópolis, and both names are legitimate. The postcode records Indianópolis; the high-end market treats the address as Ibirapuera. This entry adopts the name in common use and keeps the other for those searching by it.

Avenida Ibirapuerai is the road that gives the region its name and organises it: it starts by the park and runs south through Indianópolisi and Moemai, concentrating shops, services and Shopping Ibirapuerai along the way. Number 617 sits in the initial stretch, the closest to Parque Ibirapuerai — it is the section where the avenue is still an address to live on and already an address to move through. That dual nature is what one buys here: the buzz of an avenue at the door, with the advantage that it settles daily life on foot, and the green of the city’s largest park on the horizon. Line 5 – Lilac of the metro runs alongside the avenue southward, with Moema Stationi and Eucaliptos Stationi serving the region, and Avenida Vinte e Três de Maioi is a few minutes away for those who need to cross the city.