L'Apogée

History

L’Apogée is by Arquiplani, a São Paulo developer with more than seventy years on the road, built by ROCONTECi with a design by Candusso Arquitetosi. The case was filed in December 2015, the new-building approval permit came out in December 2017, the execution permit in September 2018, and construction started on the foundations in November 2018 — the developer’s own site log records twenty-three months on site, from the first concrete pour to the finishing, wrapped up in October 2020. It is a building built on a single decision: instead of multiplying doors on a 1,104 m² plot in an axis zone — where the law would allow densification — Arquiplan placed one family per slab.

• Concept: one apartment per floor on a plot of a thousand square metres. The tower is exclusive; the lift opens onto the family’s own hall and the floor plan occupies the entire slab, with a balcony running the full length of the façade.
• Curiosities: the building has a Shabbat lift, an electric vehicle charging station and a generator that covers not only the common areas but also the units. The Shabbat lift is not decoration: it reads the neighbourhood — Rua Tupi sits within the radius of the Jewish community of Higienópolis and Santa Cecília, and the building was designed for it.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single, slender tower on a narrow plot, with twenty storeys and a façade resolved by the continuous balcony, which runs end to end and visually ties the floors together. It is the gesture that defines the building: since there is only one apartment per slab, there is no seam between two mirrored floor plans nor a ventilation shaft between units — the façade can be a single line. Inside, the layout is that of a house: a spacious living room for several settings, dining and home cinema, a roomy kitchen with a full utility area, and the private wing with bedrooms opening onto the same balcony. The upper units have a permanent view over Pacaembui. The interior design and landscaping credits are not publicly documented and are therefore not attributed here.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 block, 20 storeys, 1 apartment per floor — an exclusive tower. The total number of units is not reliably documented and is therefore left open.
• Floor areas: 305 m² in the type declared by the developer; the units in circulation measure between 310 and 312 m² of private area. 4 to 5 bedrooms, with 4 to 5 suites — all with a balcony — and 6 to 7 bathrooms including a guest toilet.
• Parking spaces: 4 fixed, with private storage room.
• Structural features: balcony running the full length of the façade, generator for common and private areas, Shabbat lift, electric vehicle charging station, bicycle storage, private storage room per unit and accessibility in the common areas.
• Registry and parameters: plot 1,104.21 m² per the permit (1,105 m² in the tax register) · built area 9,277.54 m² per the permit and 10,422 m² declared by the builder · 1 block · 20 storeys · 1 unit per floor · private areas of 305 to 312 m² · 4 to 5 suites · 4 parking spaces with storage room · case filed on 04 Dec 2015, approval permit on 13 Dec 2017, execution permit on 12 Sep 2018, construction from Nov 2018 to Oct 2020 · registered at the 2º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi (Santa Cecília sub-district) · ZEU zoning, Law 16.402/2016 · 4x buildable potential · unrestricted height limit.

Leisure and facilities

• Heated indoor pool
• Gym
• Sauna
• Massage room
• Party room
• Gourmet area and barbecue
• Play room
• Playground
• Garden
• Bicycle storage
• 24-hour concierge and monitoring
• Generator for common and private areas
• Shabbat lift
• Electric vehicle charging station
• Accessibility in the common areas

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Santa Cecília: the address

Rua Tupi is one of São Paulo’s border streets: the postcode and the city government place it in Santa Cecíliai, the market sells it as Higienópolisi, and the view, from above, is of Pacaembui. All three are right — this is the exact point where the neighbourhoods meet, and the street inherits the best of each. From Higienópolis come the schools, the clinics and Shopping Pátio Higienópolisi; from Santa Cecília, the metro on foot (Estação Santa Cecíliai and Estação Marechal Deodoroi) and the street commerce that handles the day; from Pacaembu, the greenery and the horizon the tower looks out on. The street itself has more than ten restaurants on its own. It is an address you can walk from — and from which you reach downtown, Paulista and the marginais without depending on a single route.