H.I. Pinheiros

History

H.I. Pinheiros was born of a partnership between Setini, which developed it, and R. Yazbeki, which built it — two long-standing São Paulo houses that shared the development. The architectural design is by the office Aflalo Gasperinii and was developed in 2018, on a plot with a rare feature in Pinheiros: a through-plot, fronting Rua Francisco Leitão and backing onto Rua Henrique Schaumann. According to the office itself, it was the site condition that determined the design approach — the plot has an open view of the Avenida Brasil axis and a continuous view of Jardim Américai, and the answer was to make the most of verticality to reach that landscape. Hence the 125 metres of height.

The building is mixed-use: a two-storey commercial base, with shops on the ground floor, supports the residential tower of 91 apartments. The common areas and the show flat are by Todos Arquiteturai, with exclusive pieces signed by designer Sérgio Matosi.

• Concept: verticality in service of the view. The plot had an open horizon in two directions; the project rose 125 metres to capture it, and placed the leisure floor 20 metres up, above the commercial base, so that the common area was born with the landscape already in view.
• Trivia: the ground floor can be crossed through. The office calls the solution urban kindness: pedestrians enter from one street, walk through the development in front of the shop windows, and exit onto the other — a connection in the middle of the block, created where there used to be only a perimeter. The facade, in turn, is described by the developer as a boomerang in the neighbourhood’s skyline; the continuous terraces that form it add up to about 47.8 linear metres of frontage.

Architecture and aesthetics

The facade is made of two families of lines in tension. The horizontals are the continuous, slightly tilted terraces, which run for almost 48 metres of frontage and look out over a low, tree-lined neighbourhood; the verticals are the side gable walls, which contain the horizontality and give proportion back to the volume. Below, the commercial base receives a different treatment — vertical brise-soleil that clad the two shop floors — and connects to the tower through a large framed void, which works as a portico and marks the residential entrance. The material palette is deliberately dry: exposed concrete, wood-look aluminium, white and grey render, and large aluminium-and-glass frames. In the interiors and common areas, Todos Arquiteturai signs the design, with exclusive furniture by designer Sérgio Matosi.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 residential tower of 36 floors above a 2-floor commercial base with ground-floor shops, 3 apartments per floor, 91 units. The project’s technical sheet counts 44 floors in total, including basements and base.
• Sizes: 151 to 178 m² in the standard floor plans, in five options, with 1, 2 or 3 suites. The development’s table records: 176 to 178 m² with 3 suites and 2 parking spaces, with a view of the Jardinsi, from the 1st to the 34th floor (59 units, except the 5th, a leisure floor); 151 m² with 2 suites and 2 parking spaces, with a view of Pinheiros, from the 7th to the 34th (28 units); 440 m² penthouse with 3 suites and 3 parking spaces on the 8th floor; and, on the 35th, duplex penthouses of 353 m² and 357 m² with 4 suites and 4 parking spaces, and a 295 m² duplex with 3 suites and 3 parking spaces.
• Parking spaces: 2 in the standard floor plans; 3 in the penthouse and the 295 m² duplex; 4 in the 353 m² and 357 m² duplexes.
• Structural highlights: through-plot between Rua Francisco Leitão and Rua Henrique Schaumann, with a pedestrian crossing through the ground floor; leisure floor set at 20 m height, above the commercial base; continuous terraces of approximately 47.8 linear metres of frontage; balcony delivered with a barbecue; air-conditioning infrastructure planned for the living room, suites and terrace; electronic lock; floor plan with a home-office option; private storage unit.
• Registration and parameters: 1 tower · 36 residential floors · 3 apartments per floor · 91 units · 125 m in height · plot area 2,749.47 m² · built area 14,997.88 m² · mixed use (residential and commercial) · architectural design from 2018 · delivered 2024.

Leisure and facilities

• Heated indoor pool with 25 m lane
• Outdoor pool
• Fitness
• Party room
• Toy library
• Plaza
• Bicycle rack
• Lockers & facilities
• Delivery room
• Pay-per-use services
• Wi-fi in common areas
• Armoured guardhouse
• Generator

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Pinheiros: the address

Pinheirosi is the neighbourhood where São Paulo learned to be contemporary without turning its back on the street. Rua Francisco Leitão runs through the residential core between Avenida Rebouçasi and Rua Henrique Schaumann, a step away from the life of Largo da Batata, the tables of Teodoro Sampaio and the web of galleries, cafés and bars that made the neighbourhood famous; and a few minutes from the financial axis of Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Limai. Metro Line 4 – Yellow links the address to the rest of the city without a car, and to the west lie Parque Villa-Lobosi and Esporte Clube Pinheirosi. It is a neighbourhood of very high demand and very little remaining land — and one of the few central regions of São Paulo where high-end verticalisation still finds an open horizon to look at.