Praia da Grama

History

Praia da Grama is the second chapter of Fazenda da Gramai, the countryside subdivision in Itupevai established in the 2000s around an eighteen-hole golf course. Nearly twenty years after the golf course, the same estate gained a second centre of life: a sector built around an artificial wave lagoon with a sandy shore, served by the same access at km 83,5 of Rodovia Miguel Melhado Camposi and by the same country-club infrastructure.

The beach was delivered at the end of 2020 and, at its opening, was presented as the first artificial surf lagoon of its kind in South America. It operates with Wavegarden Cove technology — the same system that supplies the reference artificial beaches around the world — capable of producing around a thousand waves per hour, from half a metre to two metres high, from rollers for beginners to tubes for experienced surfers. It is golf and sea within the same perimeter, an hour from the office: a combination with no known parallel in the country.

• Concept: the artificial shoreline as the second axis of a golf subdivision — the beach stops being an amenity and becomes the centre of an entire residential sector, with houses facing the lagoon the way they once faced the fairway.
• Curiosities: the lagoon covers around 91,000 square metres, with a sandy shore of approximately 500 metres and Atlantic Forest vegetation around it; the Wavegarden system delivers up to a thousand waves per hour, from 0.5 to 2 metres. Access is restricted to residents and guests of the two sectors of Fazenda da Gramai.

Architecture and aesthetics

Like every sector of a countryside subdivision, Praia da Grama has no single architectural project: the plots go to custom construction and the design is left to each owner’s architect. Unity comes from the lagoon, which organises the layout of the sector the same way the golf course organises the rest of the condominium — the streets and houses face the shore, and the sandy strip works as the central square of a beachside neighbourhood set in the São Paulo countryside. It is a built landscape, not an inherited one: the wave lagoon is heavy infrastructure, not an amenity added afterwards.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: not a tower. It is a gated subdivision sector within Fazenda da Gramai, with plots for custom construction organised around the wave lagoon.
• Areas: the area that matters here is the plot’s, not the house’s — the built area varies with each owner’s project. The development’s material places the sector’s plots starting at around 2,500 m².
• Parking spaces: as per each house and project.
• Structural highlights: artificial wave lagoon with Wavegarden Cove technology (around 91,000 m²), sandy shore of approximately 500 metres and native forest around it; access and infrastructure shared with Fazenda da Gramai — an eighteen-hole golf course, equestrian centre, clubhouse and heliport within the same perimeter.
• Registry and parameters: a sector of Fazenda da Gramai, in Itupeva/SP, with the postal neighbourhood and postcode of the parent condominium (Residencial Fazenda da Grama, postcode 13299-770). Outside the scope of the tax lot and zoning data surveyed for the São Paulo municipality.

Leisure and facilities

• Artificial wave beach with Wavegarden Cove technology, sandy shore of around 500 metres
• Lagoon of approximately 91,000 m² with native forest around it
• Access to Fazenda da Gramai infrastructure: 18-hole golf course, equestrian centre, clubhouse and lakes
• Heliport within the Fazenda da Grama perimeter

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Itupeva: the address

Itupevai is the municipality of just over sixty thousand inhabitants tucked between Jundiaí, Vinhedo and Louveira, on the Rodovia dos Bandeirantes corridor, around seventy kilometres from the capital. It has a dual calling — the parks-and-outlets tourism of the SerrAzul hub on one side, and the largest concentration of countryside golf subdivisions in the state on the other. Geography is the argument: Viracopos airport is a few minutes away, Campinas half an hour, São Paulo an hour when the Bandeirantes highway cooperates, and the mid-altitude climate delivers cool nights year-round. Buying at Praia da Grama means buying a short distance to two economic centres at once — and that is the difference from the countryside of Itui and Porto Felizi, which look only towards the capital.