Vila Romana Jardim Paulista

History

Vila Romana occupies a tax lot of 1,045 m² on Alameda Lorena and reaches the market without documented authorship: neither the design, the developer, nor the delivery date appear in a verifiable public source, and the encyclopedia prefers the blank field to a guess. What the record does support is the form — a single tower, 58.7 meters tall, set back from the street alignment, in a stretch of the alameda that is almost entirely residential. It is the design choice that gives the building the rarest thing on this block: a distance between the building’s front door and the sidewalk.

• Concept: the classic Jardinsi apartment at a large scale — three suites, full staff quarters and three parking spaces in 222 square meters —, in a set-back tower that trades commercial frontage for a garden.
• Curiosities: the name is misleading, and it is worth knowing: “Vila Romana” is a neighborhood in Lapa, on the other side of the river, and the coincidence has already tripped up more than one record that sent this address to the wrong side of the city. Here, Vila Romana is a building name, and the address is Alameda Lorena, in Jardim Paulistai. The building also keeps a floor-plan detail that has disappeared from new developments: the master suite has two walk-in closets, one for him and one for her, and the gourmet kitchen can be closed off or opened to the social area as the resident wishes.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single tower set back from the alignment, 58.7 meters tall according to the municipal cartographic base, on a 1,045 m² plot. The setback is the gesture that defines the building on the street: instead of butting up against the sidewalk like almost the entire block, the building opens a strip of green area between the lobby and the sidewalk. Inside, the program is that of the established Jardinsi apartment — a living room large enough for several settings, a guest bathroom, three suites, a service area with full staff quarters and its own bathroom. The architectural design credit is not publicly documented and is therefore not attributed here.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower.
• Floor areas: 222 m² in the units currently on the market — records show 222, 223 and even 235 m² —, with 3 bedrooms, all suites, and up to 5 bathrooms.
• Parking: 3.
• Structural highlights: 1,045 m² plot; single 58.7 m tower set back from the street alignment, with a green area in front; master suite with two walk-in closets; gourmet kitchen that can open onto the social area; service area with full staff quarters and bathroom.
• Registry and parameters: tax lot of 1,045 m² · 1 tower · 3 bedrooms · 3 suites · 3 parking spaces · private areas from 222 to 235 m² · building height 58.7 m · registry jurisdiction 13º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi (Cerqueira César subdistrict) · zoning ZM, Lei 16.402/2016.

Leisure and facilities

• Gym
• Party room
• Green area
• 24-hour security

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in meters

Jardim Paulista: the address

Jardim Paulistai is the neighborhood where São Paulo learned to live well and never unlearned it. Alameda Lorena runs through the residential core parallel to Rua Oscar Freirei, and at the stretch by number 1151 it has already left the storefronts behind: here the street belongs to residents, with large trees, wide sidewalks and buildings of one family per floor. Nearby, a few minutes’ walk away, are the Club Athletico Paulistanoi, the Mercado Santa Luzia, the neighborhood’s traditional schools and the strip of restaurants that made the name of the Jardinsi; by car, Avenida Paulistai and Avenida Rebouçasi are minutes away. It is an address that does not depend on novelty: the street grid, street-level commerce and mature trees have been established for decades, and very little land remains for going vertical.