Itaipava

History

Itaipava is a product of the mature verticalisation of Moemai dos Pássaros: a single, slender tower on Avenida Jacutinga, with two apartments per floor and a standard floor plan of around 125 metres — the size that defined the neighbourhood when it traded the house for the tower. Market sources disagree on the handover year, pointing at times to 1992, at times to 1995; the house’s rule requires two independent sources that agree before a year can enter the field, and for that reason it is left blank. Design authorship and development are not found in any publicly verifiable source.

• Concept: two apartments per floor in a narrow, tall tower — little area per floor, plenty of height, and the plot given back through the podium and setbacks rather than occupied by the floor plan.
• Curiosities: Avenida Jacutinga has built up a small collection of buildings named after Ita- place names — Itaipava at 220, Itajubá at 251 and Itacolomyi at 360 —, a legacy of the taste for names of Brazilian towns and mountain ranges that marked São Paulo real estate development in the 1980s and 1990s. And the address is Avenida Jacutinga, not Rua: the road is one of those that form Moema dos Pássaros, where jacutinga, gaivota, inhambu, canário, macuco and sabiá became street names.

Architecture and aesthetics

A narrow slab over a wide podium. The base occupies 886 m² of the plot in a little over three metres of height — garage and common areas —, and from there rises a tower measuring 17.7 by 21.6 metres in plan, a 277 m² footprint, up to 64.86 metres in height, spread over twenty-one floors: a little over three metres per floor, the standard for good residential construction of the period. The tower occupies about a fifth of the plot and is set back on all four sides, which gives cross-ventilation and unobstructed views from the middle floors upward. With two apartments per 277 m² floor, the standard floor plans run around 125 metres; the penthouse, at 253 m², occupies practically the entire floor on its own — in practice, a different product within the same building. The architectural design’s authorship is not publicly documented and, for that reason, is not attributed here.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower, 21 floors, 2 apartments per floor.
• Areas: 124 to 130 m² on the standard floor plan, with 3 bedrooms; transfers recorded by the city council at this address confirm an area of 126.6 m². At the top, a 253 m² penthouse.
• Parking spaces: 2 to 3 on the standard floor plan.
• Structural highlights: 1,384 m² plot (50.5 × 32.4 m); 64.86 m tower with only a 277 m² footprint, set back on all four sides; 886 m² podium with garage and common areas; penthouse occupying the entire floor.
• Registry and parameters: 1,384 m² tax lot · 1 tower · 21 floors · 2 apartments per floor · 3 bedrooms on the standard floor · 2 to 3 parking spaces · private areas from 124 to 253 m² · building height 64.86 m · tower footprint 277 m² · registry jurisdiction 14th São Paulo Property Registryi (Indianópolis sub-district) · ZM zoning, Law 16.402/2016.

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Moema: the address

Two names for the same address

The plot sits on the border between Moema and Indianópolis, and both names are legitimate. The postcode registers Indianópolis; the luxury market treats the address as Moema. This entry adopts the name in common use and keeps the other for those who search by it.

Avenida Jacutinga is one of the roads that shape Moema dos Pássaros — the quadrant where the streets traded people’s names for bird names, and the neighbourhood consolidated its reputation as the best residential address in the south zone. It is a low-scale Moemai: street shops, a corner bakery, school within walking distance, and Parque Ibirapuerai right there, on the other side of Avenida Ibirapuera. Estação Moemai put the neighbourhood on Line 5–Lilac and shortened the way to Faria Lima and to Congonhas Airport, a few minutes away by car. It is a neighbourhood that has had almost no vacant plots for decades: verticalisation happened by replacing houses one by one, which is why the towers coexist with townhouses, tall trees and narrow streets.