Vizcaya Itaim

History

From Bolsa de Imóveisi with Lucioi, with architecture by LE Arquitetosi, Vizcaya Itaim sails through low-density high-end living: one apartment per floor in Itaimi, a few steps from Parque do Povoi, Clube Pinheirosi, JK Iguatemii and Faria Limai. The idea that organises the building is silence: a single family per level, in a shell built to keep the city’s noise out.

• Concept: low-density high-end living and refined engineering, with a single resident per floor, in Itaimi a step from Parque do Povoi.
• Trivia: the slabs are 25 cm or more and there is acoustic insulation, 10 to 12 mm glass and automated blinds in the suites, a shell sealed against the city’s noise.

Architecture and aesthetics

The plot is a corner one — fronting Avenida Horácio Lafer and Rua Lopes Neto —, with 2,483 m² and sixty-three metres of frontage, enough room for the twenty-four floors to rise with just one unit on each. What defines the building, though, does not show on the façade: it is in the thickness. Slabs of 25 cm or more, acoustic insulation, 10 to 12 mm glass, door seals and automated blinds in the suites make the flat a sealed shell — a design decision taken by LE Arquitetosi on a plot right on the city’s busiest axis, responding to its surroundings by building against them. The entrance works the opposite way, towards amplitude: a double-height hall, with central vacuum and automation running behind the walls. Landscaping by Renata Tillii and common-area design by João Armentanoi.

Aesthetics and scarcity

• Aesthetics: contemporary high-end.

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: single tower, 24 floors, one per floor, 25 units (1 Garden/Maison, 23 standard flats and 1 triplex penthouse).
• Sizes: standard unit of 541 m² (4 suites, 6 parking spaces and storage room); Garden of 1,114 m² (4 suites, 8 parking spaces and storage room); triplex penthouse (5 suites, 12 parking spaces and storage room).
• Parking: 6 spaces in the standard unit, 8 in the Garden, 12 in the penthouse.
• Structural highlights: very high construction standard (slabs of 25 cm or more, acoustic insulation, 10 to 12 mm glass, automated blinds in the suites, door seals), central vacuum and automation.
• Registry and parameters: plot 2,483 m² · frontage 63 m · 1 tower · 24 floors · 25 units (1 per floor) · 4 bedrooms · 6 to 8 parking spaces · 4 lifts · private areas of 541 m² (standard), 1,114 m² (Garden) and 1,396 m² (penthouse) · registry jurisdiction 4th São Paulo Property Registryi · zoning ZM · buildable ratio 2x · height limit 28 m.

Leisure and facilities

• Adult pool
• Children’s pool
• Heated and covered
• Spa
• Sauna
• Gym
• Gourmet space
• Children’s playroom
• Solarium
• Garden
• Hammock area
• Double-height hall

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Itaim Bibi: the address

The address is a corner: Avenida Horácio Lafer meets Rua Lopes Neto at number 430, in the stretch where the avenue is still residential yet already feels Faria Limai — the Faria Lima Square helipad is 138 metres from the door, the shortest distance among the archive’s addresses on this avenue. Seventy numbers further on, at 500, stands Vitrai; Parque do Povoi is 317 metres away and Shopping JK Iguatemii 405, with the municipal early-years school at 92. It is the contradiction that defines the spot: a neighbourhood corner inside the most corporate block of Itaimi — and a building that had to be built against its own surroundings in order to make the most of them.