Cheiva

History

Cheiva is a building from another era of Alameda Casa Brancai: a single tower, twelve storeys, two flats per floor and floor plans laid out for a large family, with a living room for two or three areas, full staff quarters and sizes ranging from 150 to over 300 square metres. The garage belongs to its own time — one parking space per unit in most of the flats, and some owners have solved the shortfall by buying a space in the building next door. The development, construction and authorship of the architectural project are not publicly documented, and the year of delivery could not be confirmed by an independent source; for that reason, none of these is attributed here.

• Concept: two flats per floor on a block of Jardim Américai that no longer has land left to develop.
• Trivia: the building became an address for heavy renovations. A good number of the units in circulation have been redone by high-end architecture firms, and the largest of them, with about 350 m² of usable area, merged the living room with a gourmet kitchen, replaced all the bedroom window frames with noise-reduction profiles, and fitted solid six-centimetre doors with concealed metal frames — the kind of work that only pays off in a building with generous structure.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single tower of twelve storeys with two flats per floor, on the flat stretch of Alameda Casa Brancai. The flats have an open-plan living room with large windows and plenty of light — the wide floor plan that made this generation of buildings in the Jardinsi famous and that today sustains full renovations without needing to touch the structure. The authorship of the architectural project is not publicly documented and, for that reason, is not attributed here.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower, 12 storeys, 2 flats per floor.
• Sizes: 150 to 312 m² in the units currently in circulation, with 2 to 5 bedrooms; the archive also records one renovated unit of about 350 m² of usable area.
• Parking spaces: 1 in most units; up to 3 in the largest, supplemented in the neighbouring building.
• Structural highlights: two flats per floor · living room with large windows · full staff quarters · piped gas.
• Registration and parameters: 1 tower · 12 storeys · 2 flats per floor · 2 to 5 bedrooms · 1 to 3 parking spaces · private areas from 150 m² to about 350 m² · registry jurisdiction 4º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi.

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Jardim América: the address

Two names for the same address

The plot sits on the border between Jardim América and Jardim Paulista, and both names are legitimate. The postcode registers Jardim Paulista; the high-end market treats the address as Jardim América. This entry adopts the name in common use and keeps the other for anyone searching for it.

Jardim Américai is São Paulo’s first garden neighbourhood and remains the benchmark for the others: blocks laid out at the start of the twentieth century, mature tree cover, a low height limit and land-use rules that held back verticalisation where other neighbourhoods gave way. Alameda Casa Brancai cuts straight and flat through this fabric, from the residential core of the Jardinsi to Rua Estados Unidosi — it is one of the few streets in the neighbourhood where you can walk without climbing a slope, with a wide pavement, closed tree canopy and little through traffic. Rua Oscar Freirei, the Club Athletico Paulistanoi and the São Paulo Athletic Clubi are within walking distance; Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Limai and Shopping Cidade Jardimi are minutes away by car.