Maison Saint Valery

History

Maison Saint Valery belongs to the crop of large-footage residential towers Moema received in the early 1990s, when the neighbourhood still had deep plots and the law still allowed one unit per slab with four bedrooms and a full staff area. It is a generation of buildings that has aged well precisely because it was born wide: today’s floor plans, on the same block, come out at half the size with twice the units per floor. The authorship of the project and the name of the builder are not documented in a public source and, for that reason, are not attributed here.

• Concept: generous floor area and low density in a stretch of Moema that verticalised early — the whole building is an argument for private area.
• Curiosities: the duplex penthouse opens with an eight-metre ceiling height in the social area, and the terrace carries a pool, garden and barbecue area — a suspended house, in practice. The address is also often mixed up in registries: Alameda dos Arapanés sits in the quadrant the market calls Moema Pássaros, not the one with indigenous-named alamedas, where the building is sometimes mistakenly sent.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single tower, set back from the street, with a façade that does not compete for the street’s attention: the aesthetic of this crop is discreet, and the value lies inside. What defines the building is the floor plan — few units, rooms arranged in a line and wide circulation spaces, with an independent service entrance and a private area separated from the social one, an arrangement the neighbourhood’s high end abandoned when floor areas shrank. At the top, the duplex breaks the rule of the rest of the building: two floors, an eight-metre ceiling height in the living room and its own outdoor area.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower.
• Floor areas: 290 m² in the standard floor plan, with 3 bedrooms and 3 suites; the archive in circulation records duplex penthouses of around 600 to 685 m², with 4 bedrooms and 4 suites.
• Parking: 5 in the standard floor plan; up to 8 in the penthouses.
• Structural highlights: eight-metre ceiling height in the social area of the duplex penthouse, with a pool and barbecue area on the terrace; independent service entrance; private storage room; central heating and gas.
• Registry and parameters: 1 tower · 3 to 4 bedrooms · 3 to 4 suites · 5 to 8 parking spaces · private areas from 290 m² to around 685 m² · condominium registered with the Federal Revenue Service since March 1995.

Leisure and facilities

• Swimming pool
• Gym
• Party room
• Games room
• Children’s playroom
• Barbecue area
• Garden
• 24-hour concierge

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. The tree-lined alamedas run between Avenida Ibirapuerai and Avenida República do Líbano, opening onto Parque Ibirapuerai on one side and the densest street-level retail in the southern zone on the other — bakery, market, restaurant and gym on the same block. The metro stitches the neighbourhood together via Line 5–Lilac, and access to Faria Lima, Berrini and Congonhas Airport takes minutes. It is an address that combines two rare things at once: a genuinely residential street and full service at the door.