Dimona

History

Dimona belongs to the generation of residential buildings that verticalised Alameda Lorena in the 1970s, when Jardim Paulistai still had large plots and the law still allowed spending a good part of them on setbacks. It is from that generation that the decision defining the building to this day comes: a single flat per floor, with a square floor plan and windows on all four orientations. The authorship of the project and the developer’s name are not publicly documented and, for that reason, are not attributed here.

• Concept: one flat per floor in a square floor plan, with the volume set back from the building line — privacy and ventilation resolved by the layout, not by the finish.
• Trivia: the building kept its original four-bedroom floor plan with two en-suites and full staff quarters, a typology the Jardinsi market practically no longer builds; the outdoor area went through modernisation, but the core of the units remains the design of the 1970s. The name comes from Dimona, an Israeli city in the Negev desert.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single tower, set back from the building line of Alameda Lorena, with one flat per floor. The floor plan is square — the living room takes large windows from side to side and a continuous balcony, and the private areas spread across opposite faces, with no internal light well. The archive in circulation records units up to the fourteenth floor. 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, 1 flat per floor.
• Sizes: 350 to 370 m² in the floor plans in circulation, with 3 and 4 bedrooms; the 4-bedroom floor plan has 2 en-suites, the master with a walk-in closet.
• Parking spaces: 2 to 3 per unit; in the three-space units, two single and one double. Storage on the ground floor.
• Structural highlights: volume set back from the building line, square floor plan with light on opposite faces, living room with a balcony, study, guest toilet, dining room, breakfast room and staff quarters with two bedrooms. 24-hour concierge.

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Jardim Paulista: the address

Alameda Lorena is one of the spines of Jardim Paulistai: it runs parallel to Rua Oscar Freirei on the flat stretch of the neighbourhood, with street-level shops on some blocks and strictly residential use on others. Number 990 sits in the residential stretch — a few minutes’ walk from the shop windows of Oscar Freire and Rua Bela Cintra, a few blocks from Colégio Dante Alighierii and next to the Club Athletico Paulistanoi. It is a part of the city that does not depend on novelty: the tree cover, the retail grid and the schools have been settled for decades, and what is left to develop fits in the palm of a hand.