Appia

History

Appia is the work of SKRi, a São Paulo family developer founded in 1985 and known for the concept it named “Arquitetura Viva” (“Living Architecture”). Delivered in 2010, it has an architectural design by Pablo Slemensoni, interiors by Ricardo Miura and Carla Yasuda, and landscaping by Marcelo Novaesi — the same authorial pair behind other addresses by the same developer and in the same neighbourhood. The name comes from the Via Appia, the Roman road, and the coherence carries through to the internal naming: the building’s four unit types are called Mobili, Giardino, Doppio and Città.

• Concept: one apartment per floor in a tower on a 1,075 m² plot. The entire built area — 9,651 m² — was staked on a few large units, with no compact typology to dilute the development’s arithmetic.
• Trivia: the building’s arithmetic tells the story on its own. There are 22 units spread over 25 storeys with one per floor: nineteen follow the standard floor plan, and the remaining three occupy two storeys each. The building was also born with access to the lifts by personal code and biometrics — in 2010, an exceptional feature for São Paulo residential buildings.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single vertical tower, 84.5 metres of architectural height and a structure entirely in concrete, on a plot of just over a thousand square metres. The layout is the direct response to the site: with no width to spread across, Pablo Slemensoni‘s design goes up. With a single unit per floor, the plan occupies the entire slab and opens onto more than one face, and the lift delivers straight into the family’s own hall. The garden is by Marcelo Novaesi and the interiors of the common areas and show units are by Ricardo Miura and Carla Yasuda. The infrastructure was treated as part of the design rather than as an add-on: air conditioning, central vacuum, central heating, automated lighting in the common areas, individual metering of water, electricity and gas, and communication and IT networks built in from construction.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower, 25 storeys, 22 units, 1 apartment per floor. Four unit types and eight floor-plan options.
• Sizes: Mobili, the standard floor plan, at 240 m², 4 bedrooms and 3 suites (19 units); Città at 265 m² with 3 suites; Giardino at 311 m² with 4 bedrooms and 3 suites; Doppio at 339 m² with 4 bedrooms and 4 suites.
• Parking: 3 or 4 on the standard floor plans; 4 on the Doppio and the Città.
• Structural features: built area of 9,651 m² on a plot of 1,075 m²; one apartment per floor; air conditioning, central vacuum and central heating; individual consumption metering; access control to the lifts by code and biometrics; armoured security control rooms.
• Registry and parameters: plot of 1,075 m² (1,073 m² in the tax register) · built area of 9,651 m² · 1 tower · 25 storeys · 22 units · 1 per floor · 4 bedrooms · 3 to 4 suites · 3 to 4 parking spaces · architectural height of 84.5 m · reinforced concrete structure · delivered 2010 · registry jurisdiction 4º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi (Jardim Paulista subdistrict) · zoning ZC, Lei 16.402/2016.

Leisure and facilities

• Heated pool with wet deck
• Fitness centre
• Sauna
• Rest room
• Gourmet space
• Lounge
• Wireless access in the common and leisure areas
• Automated lighting in the common areas
• Armoured security and control rooms
• Video surveillance system
• Vehicle access control
• Access to the lifts by personal code and biometrics

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Jardim Paulista: the address

Jardim Paulistai has two halves, and this is the more discreet one. While the neighbourhood’s fame concentrates along the Rua Oscar Freirei axis, the initial stretch of Alameda Lorena — the one starting at Avenida Brigadeiro Luís Antônioi and crossing Alameda Joaquim Eugênio de Lima and Rua Guarará — is residential, leafy and free of storefronts. Avenida Paulistai is less than a kilometre away on foot, with Brigadeiro stationi, Trianoni park and Shopping Pátio Paulistai at the top of the climb; the Jardinsi lie on the other side, in the opposite direction. It is one of the few addresses in the city that offer both things at once — Paulista within walking distance and a quiet street at the door — and the block has been settled for decades, with no vacant plot left to develop.