Maison Lalique

History

Maison Lalique sits on the stretch of Alameda dos Arapanési that the market calls Moema Pássaros, between Avenida Ibirapuerai and Avenida Jacutinga. The municipal register lists the address under the “Condominium” use and measures the plot at 9,855 m² — a figure that explains the design of the complex: towers set on a shared podium, with a good part of the plot reserved for common areas, an arrangement the neighbourhood only allowed while plots of this size were still available to develop. The authorship of the project, the name of the developer and the delivery year are not documented in an independent public source and, for that reason, are not attributed here: the market databases in circulation disagree with each other both on the date and on the number of towers.

• Concept: large floor area and low density on a plot of a size rare for Moema — the address’s argument is the land, not the façade.
• Curiosities: this is one of the addresses most often entered incorrectly in registries. It is an Alameda (avenue), not a rua (street), and the quadrant is the one with bird-named alamedas — the same mix-up that has already sent the neighbouring Maison Saint Valeryi to the wrong side of the neighbourhood. And the complex is larger than the façade lets on: the shared podium alone has about 6,100 m² of built footprint in the City Hall’s building register, more than the entire plot of most buildings in the area.

Architecture and aesthetics

The site layout is what defines the building. Instead of a single tower set at the property line, the complex spreads the towers over a shared podium and sets the volumes back into the plot, so that the alameda sees garden before it sees building. The two tower footprints facing Alameda dos Arapanés measure 430 and 448 m² in the municipal building register — enough slab for few units per floor, with floor plans that run from façade to façade. The standard units have a two-room living area and a glazed gourmet balcony facing the landscaped core of the plot. The architectural authorship is not publicly documented and, for that reason, is not attributed here.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: a complex of more than one tower on a shared podium. The exact number of towers is not attributed here — the market databases disagree with each other, and the municipal survey records four tower-sized footprints within the plot.
• Floor areas: 181 m² in the standard floor plan, with 3 to 4 bedrooms and 3 suites; the archive in circulation also records a 185 m² floor plan with 4 bedrooms and 3 suites, and a 292 m² duplex penthouse with 4 suites.
• Parking: 3 in the standard floor plan; 4 in the larger units and the penthouse.
• Structural highlights: 9,855 m² plot with a shared podium of about 6,100 m² of built footprint; glazed gourmet balcony in the standard floor plan; two-room living area.
• Registry and parameters: plot 9,855 m² · registered use “Condominium” · tower footprints of 430 and 448 m² facing the alameda · shared podium of about 6,100 m² · registry jurisdiction 14th Real Estate Registry Office of São Pauloi · zoning ZEU (Law 16.402/2016).

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Moema: the address

Moemai is the neighbourhood São Paulo chose to live in without giving up walking. Alameda dos Arapanési runs through the quadrant of bird-named alamedas, between Avenida Ibirapuerai and Avenida Jacutinga, in a residential stretch of wide pavements and closed tree canopy — and a few minutes from Ibirapuera Parki, Ibirapuera Malli and Moema Stationi on Line 5–Lilac. It is the part of the neighbourhood where street-level shops are one corner away and quiet begins at the next — and also the part that has practically no large plots left to develop, because verticalisation arrived early and used up the tracts of land.