The Falls Haus

History

From G.D8i, The Falls Haus is a condominium of six houses anchored in Jardim Guedalai, next to the Jockey Clubi, about ten minutes from Faria Limai. The concept dispenses with dense common areas: the leisure is transferred to each residence, with a private rooftop and pool, and the houses are separated by sensory gardens with waterfalls.

• Concept: the self-contained luxury house, with 100% private leisure and sensory gardens, in Jardim Guedala.
• Trivia: the name refers to the waterfalls of the sensory gardens that separate the houses.

Architecture and aesthetics

The design brief is born from the law before it is born from the drawing. The plot is in ZER-1, a strictly residential zone, where a tower doesn’t fit and a highest-end product has to be a house. The Falls Haus’s answer is to build vertically within each residence rather than verticalising the plot: the staff quarters go down to the basement, the social programme occupies the body of the house and the leisure area rises to the rooftop, so that the 493 to 701 m² stack in levels instead of spreading across the land. The language is contemporary and minimalist, and the gap between the six houses is made by the garden — which here fulfils the function that, in a vertical condominium, would belong to the slab. The project also declares a concern for resilience and thermal comfort. The authors of the architectural design and of the landscaping are not publicly documented and, for that reason, are not attributed here.

Aesthetics and scarcity

• Aesthetics: contemporary and minimalist.

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: condominium of 6 houses, separated by sensory gardens (waterfalls). No dense common areas: leisure is transferred to each residence (gourmet terrace and private rooftop, pool, barbecue area; staff quarters in the basement).
• Sizes: from around 493 to 701 m², 3 to 4 suites.
• Parking: 4 spaces.
• Structural highlights: 100% private leisure per house (rooftop, gourmet terrace, pool), with a proposal for resilience and thermal comfort.
• Registry and parameters: plot 783 m² · 6 houses · private areas of ≈ 493 to 701 m² · 3 to 4 suites · 4 parking spaces · registry jurisdiction 18th São Paulo Property Registryi · zoning ZER-1 · free buildable ratio · free height limit.

Leisure and facilities

• Private leisure per house
• Sensory gardens
• 24-hour concierge

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Jardim Guedala: the address

Avenida Roberto Lorenz climbs through the heart of Jardim Guedalai, on the hilly terrain that separates the Jockeyi from the rise up to Morumbi. It is a strictly residential zone, and that is felt before anything else: there are no street-level shops on the block and no station within walking distance — the survey of this address’s surroundings records no metro or train, and that is not a research gap, it is the neighbourhood’s definition. What exists is the opposite: Parque Alfredo Volpii less than five hundred metres away, Parque do Morumbii a kilometre away, international and traditional schools within walking distance — Colégio Antoine de Saint-Exupéryi six hundred and sixty metres away — and quick access to Marginal Pinheirosi and to Cidade Jardimi. It is an address chosen by refusal: pedestrian convenience is traded for quiet, trees and space, and whoever comes here knows exactly what they are buying.