Fazenda da Grama

History

Fazenda da Grama occupies the northern face of the capital’s country belt: not the Castello Branco axis, which heads to Itu and Porto Feliz, but the Bandeirantes axis, which climbs towards Jundiaí, Vinhedo and Campinas. The address sits at km 83,5 of the Rodovia Miguel Melhado Camposi, the road linking Vinhedo to Viracopos — and it is this position, between two airports and two metropolitan regions, that explains the development.

What gave the place its identity was golf. The Fazenda da Grama Country Clubi opened in 2006 with an eighteen-hole, par-72 course, designed by Brian Costello, of the JMP Golf Design Group — the same practice behind the Costa do Sauípe course. The two-thousand-square-metre clubhouse dominates most of the layout from above, and the course, at 7,123 yards, is among the longest in the country. Almost twenty years later, the subdivision gained its second chapter: Praia da Gramai, a sector built within the same perimeter and with the same access, organised around an artificial wave lagoon with a sand shoreline. Golf and beach at the same address, an hour from the office, is a combination with no known parallel in the country.

• Concept: the golf country club as the subdivision’s backbone, with the course’s landscape serving as the view for the houses — and, in the newer sector, the artificial shoreline as a second centre of life.
• Curiosities: the golf course is closed to members’ guests only, which preserves the layout as the condominium’s private landscape rather than as a through-amenity. Hole 17, a par-4 whose fairway runs alongside the course’s largest lake, is the postcard image of the course.

Architecture and aesthetics

Like every country subdivision, Fazenda da Grama has no single architectural design: the lots go to custom construction and the design is left to each owner’s architect. The complex’s unity comes from the golf course, which functions as landscaping on a territorial scale and organises the entire layout — the streets follow the fairways, and the view from most of the houses is the fairway grass, the lakes and the tree line of the course. It is a layout of an American country club, not of a Brazilian farm: the residences’ architecture follows suit, with a predominance of low-roofed horizontal houses open to the course. The clubhouse, of two thousand square metres at the high point of the land, is the only building with a declared architectural presence in the complex.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: it is not a tower. It is a gated country subdivision, with houses and lots for custom construction, organised into sectors — including Praia da Gramai.
• Sizes: the size that matters here is that of the lot, not the house. The built area varies with each owner’s design. The record does not register the lot size range with a confirmed primary source.
• Parking: according to the house and the design.
• Structural highlights: its own eighteen-hole, 7,123-yard golf course; 2,000 m² clubhouse; equestrian centre; lakes; licensed helipad within the perimeter; the Praia da Gramai sector, with an artificial wave lagoon.
• Registry and parameters: a gated subdivision in Itupeva/SP, with its own district and postcode at the Post Office (Avenida Fazenda da Grama, postcode 13299-770, district Residencial Fazenda da Grama). Outside the scope of the tax lot and zoning data of the São Paulo municipal survey.

Leisure and facilities

• 18-hole, par-72, 7,123-yard golf course (Fazenda da Grama Country Clubi)
• Driving range, chipping green and putting green
• 2,000 m² clubhouse with bar, sauna, pool and pro shop
• Caddie service, carts and golf cars
• Equestrian centre
• Lakes
• Helipad
• Artificial wave beach, in the Praia da Gramai sector

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Itupeva: the address

Itupevai is not a neighbourhood: it is a municipality of a little over sixty thousand inhabitants tucked between Jundiaí, Vinhedo and Louveira, on the Rodovia dos Bandeirantes axis, about seventy kilometres from the capital. It is an address of dual vocation — the parks and outlet tourism of the SerrAzul region on one side, and, on the other, the state’s highest concentration of golf country subdivisions, inherited from a farmland structure that survived intact until the 1990s. Geography is the argument: Viracopos airport is minutes away, Campinas half an hour, São Paulo an hour when the Bandeirantes cooperates, and the mid-altitude climate delivers cool nights year-round. Whoever buys in Itupeva is buying short distance to two economic centres at once — and that is the difference compared to the countryside of Itui and Porto Felizi, which look only towards the capital.