Vertical Itaim

History

By Vitaconi, with architecture by Studio MK27i, from Marcio Kogani, Vertical Itaim is a boutique building in Itaimi, near Parque do Povoi, JK Iguatemii and Faria Limai. Designed from February 2011 and completed in September 2014, it was born of an idea the firm sums up in two words: simplicity and generous spaces, in a careful composition of materials — with a single resident per floor.

• Concept: the signature Marcio Kogani boutique building, with a movable-panel façade and one resident per floor, in Itaimi.
• Trivia: the ground floor is raised on pilotis, and the façade has adjustable panels for thermal control.

Architecture and aesthetics

The façade is of exposed reinforced concrete and movable wooden panels, and it is the panels that define the building: residents themselves slide them according to the hour and the use, shading the space without closing it off. The wood has a chequered, perforated pattern that blocks the sun but lets the wind pass — the firm links it directly to the Arab mashrabiya that Brazilian colonial architecture brought over and the modernists later took up again. One of the panels runs across the 3.00 by 3.70 metre balcony, an extension of the living room, shading it while keeping it an outdoor space. The concrete is the other half of the equation: cast in wooden formwork, it keeps the texture of the planks, which the sun reveals through the day on the large blank walls, in a lineage that Studio MK27i connects to the São Paulo brutalists and to the “living organism” Lina Bo Bardi spoke of. Inside, the rigid core of circulation and services was pushed to the side of the building, freeing the plan to become an entirely open loft or a two-bedroom flat, with large glass panes in the east-facing living room; the ground floor rises on pilotis and gives the garden back to whoever enters. Landscaping by André Paolielloi.

Aesthetics and scarcity

• Aesthetics: signature contemporary, with the sustainable mark of Studio MK27i.

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: single tower, 13 floors (9 on record), one per floor, 10 residences. Ground floor raised on pilotis, with a side circulation core to free up the floor plan.
• Sizes: standard unit of 144 to 149 m² (1 to 2 suites, 3 to 4 parking spaces); penthouse of about 350 m² (5 parking spaces, 2 storage rooms, terrace, hot tub and high ceilings).
• Parking: 3 to 5 spaces.
• Structural highlights: façade with adjustable panels for thermal control, underfloor heating in the bathrooms, central vacuum, building automation and acoustic treatment.
• Registry and parameters: 343 m² plot · 1 tower · 9 floors · 10 units (1 per floor) · 2 bedrooms · 3 to 4 parking spaces · 2 bathrooms · 2 lifts · private areas of 145, 149 and 329 m² (329 m² penthouse) · registry jurisdiction 4th São Paulo Property Registryi · zoning ZM · buildable ratio 2x · height limit 28 m.

Leisure and facilities

• Social area on the 3rd floor (terrace, hot tub, gourmet space)
• Bicycle storage
• Car sharing
• Generator for the entire condominium

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Itaim Bibi: the address

Rua Salvador Cardoso is a street of small plots, and number 30 is the proof: 343 m² of land — less than the floor plan of many neighbouring flats — was enough for an entire building. That is the grain of the start of the street, and it is what explains why ten residences fit here, not a hundred. The surroundings are the usual ones at this point of Itaimi: Parque do Povoi at 86 metres, Cidade Jardim Stationi on Line 9 – Emerald at 519, Shopping JK Iguatemii at 629. The same surroundings, incidentally, as Palazzo Maggiorei, at number 122 on the same street — which occupies eight times as much ground. Two opposite answers to the same street.