Family House Jockey

History

Family House Jockey is born of a simple premise, uncommon in São Paulo’s high end: instead of going up, staying on the ground. FFii, with FCLi developing and Gattaz Engenhariai building, put together a gated condominium of seven residences in a strictly residential neighbourhood where the law, in any case, would not allow a tower to be built — and turned the limitation into a design approach. The development memorandum was registered in November 2023, and construction has been under way ever since.

The name comes from the long-standing neighbour: the Jockey Club de São Pauloi and Cidade Jardimi are right there, and it is towards that side that the street slopes down. Avenida Cidade Jardimi and Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Limai handle the connection to the rest of the city.

• Concept: family house — the home that preserves each person’s individuality within family life, with wide, adaptable interior spaces, customisable by the buyer before delivery.
• Curiosities: the property security design is signed by Grupo Haganá, which works with the Israeli concept of protection — an unusual decision for a seven-unit condominium. And the development carries an environmental offset of 675 saplings, with a further 44 replanted within the plot itself.

Architecture and aesthetics

The design is by Ide Arquiteturai, under the coordination of architect Henrique Mélega, and starts from a reading the practice states outright: architecture as the built record of a time and a way of living. In practice, that translates into natural light as a structuring element — present strongly throughout the project — and into floor plans of wide, adaptable spaces, configurable according to each family’s use, from entertainment to a children’s area. The landscaping is by Ingrid Fischer Paisagismoi, which describes its own role here as humanising and harmonising the complex, bringing green volumes of varied textures to turn the condominium into a refuge.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: gated condominium of 7 residences.
• Sizes: 550 m² private area per house, with 4 bedrooms, all suites.
• Parking: 4 per residence.
• Structural highlights: infrastructure for installing a private lift · acoustic comfort with special underlay in the flooring of private areas and acoustic ceiling in the bathrooms · power generator with automatic switch-over, for common areas and standalone units · individual charging points for electric cars, with regulation planned in the condominium bylaws · rainwater storage tanks · air-conditioning infrastructure · property security design by Grupo Haganá · unit customisation by the owner with their own architect or decorator · environmental offset of 675 saplings and replanting of 44 saplings within the development.
• Registry and parameters: development memorandum registered under R.16 of title deed 6.704, on 23/11/2023, at the 18º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi · 7 units · 4 suites · 4 parking spaces · private areas of 550 m² · ZER-1 zoning, an exclusively residential zone. The tax register lists a single condominium lot on Rua Diogo de Aros, of 2,747 m².

Leisure and facilities

• Gym
• Common areas delivered furnished and decorated per the descriptive memorandum

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Jardim Everest: the address

Jardim Everesti is one of those neighbourhoods almost no one can name and everyone has already driven through: a handful of short streets — Diogo de Aros, Gália, Carlos Ferreira, Raulino de Oliveira — tucked between Avenida Professor Francisco Morato, Avenida Lopes de Azevedo, Cidade Jardimi and Jardim Guedalai. It is house territory, not tower territory: plots from five hundred to two thousand square metres, mature tree cover and ZER-1 zoning, exclusively residential, which rules out retail and towers.

That is why the market usually sells it under the neighbour’s name, and this development is no exception — the developer’s material writes “Cidade Jardim,” which is the neighbourhood on the other side of the avenue and the address of the Jockey Club de São Pauloi. The honesty of the address takes nothing away from it: whoever buys here buys the same thing they would buy there, with an even quieter layout and the lush greenery the developer cites and which is, in fact, the trait of the place. The trade-off is the usual one in a ZER: nothing gets resolved on foot beyond walking. Everything — school, supermarket, restaurant — is on the other side of an avenue, and life here is by car.