Elinda

History

The Elinda is a residential tower from the 1970s built on a corner plot — with frontage onto both Alameda Campinas and Rua Caconde at once —, in the stretch of Jardim Paulistai descending from Avenida Paulistai to Rua Estados Unidos, where the neighbourhood borders Jardim Américai and Jardim Paulistanoi. It belongs to the vintage São Paulo built before the use-ratio calculations changed: few apartments per floor, three to five bedrooms and units reaching 600 m². The project’s authorship and the builder’s name are not publicly documented and are therefore not attributed here; market records diverge on the exact delivery year, placing the building between 1972 and 1978.

• Concept: a large floor area resolved through a corner placement — the building receives street frontage, light and ventilation on two sides, without relying on a neighbour’s setback.
• Curiosities: because of the corner, the Elinda appears in records under two different street addresses; the plot, the polygon and the condominium are one and the same. It closes off a block of towers named after people — Lidia, Marília, Maceió and Caesar Domus, on Caconde; Camamu and Videira, on Campinas itself — a cluster of addresses from the same generation, neighbours to one another.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single tower, of compact massing and a sober façade, with no continuous balcony at the front. The corner position is the gesture that defines the building: instead of one frontage and blind party walls, the Elinda opens two faces to the street, and the larger floor plans receive windows in two directions — cross ventilation that kept working even after the block densified around it. The architectural credit is not publicly documented and is not attributed here.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower. The condominium registers floor plans of three to five bedrooms, with four to six bathrooms.
• Sizes: 335 to 600 m² in the units in circulation.
• Parking: 2 in the smaller floor plans; 3 in the larger ones.
• Structural highlights: corner plot with double frontage onto Alameda Campinas and Rua Caconde.
• Registry and parameters: 1 tower · floor plans of 3 to 5 bedrooms · 4 to 6 bathrooms · 2 to 3 parking spaces · private areas of 335 m² to 600 m² · registry jurisdiction 4º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi.

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Jardim Paulista: the address

Jardim Paulistai is the neighbourhood where São Paulo consolidated the standard of living well and never gave it up. Alameda Campinas runs parallel to Avenida Paulistai and, at the stretch of number 1600, already borders Rua Estados Unidos — the line separating Jardim Paulista from Jardim Américai and Jardim Paulistanoi. It is a tree-lined residential core, of short blocks, established street-level shops and wide pavements, on the way to Rua Oscar Freirei on one side and Club Athletico Paulistanoi on the other. The fabric has been closed for decades: there is practically no land left to develop, and what does get built here now is smaller and denser than what already stands.