Villa Fiordaliso

History

Delivered in February 2013 by the builder and developer Elias Victor Nigrii, Villa Fiordaliso is the newest neighbour on a block the same house had been occupying for years — Edifício Dorchesteri sits on the same Alameda Barrosi, almost across the street. It is the work of a family-run builder active since 1979, with more than seventy developments and an almost obsessive concentration in Higienópolis and its surroundings, which keeps development and construction under the same roof. The name follows the house’s Italian line, the same as Castelbiancoi and Castello del Solei: fiordaliso is the cornflower, the blue flower of the wheat fields. The architectural project is by Israel Rewini, named as author on the building’s municipal approval permit, dated September 2009 — the same author as Edifício Dorchesteri, across the street.

• Concept: one apartment per floor, across seventeen floor plates, with full leisure infrastructure in the base — the whole floor plate for the family, without giving up the club downstairs.
• Curiosities: the first floor is not like the others. While the 2nd through 17th floors repeat the same 356 sqm private floor plan, the 1st-floor unit has 548 sqm of private area and 885 sqm of total area — 192 sqm more than the others, with the same five parking spaces. It is a single unit in the entire building. And the leisure offer brings an unusual solution: two pools, one covered with a lap lane and another outdoors, which takes the season out of the equation.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single, slender tower, seventeen floors of housing above the base, one apartment per floor. With only one unit per floor plate, the lift opens straight into each family’s own private hall and the floor plan occupies the entire storey, with no shared wall or ventilation shaft between neighbours — the solution Elias Victor Nigrii repeats across nearly its entire portfolio in the area. The 1,848 sqm plot allowed the tower to be concentrated on one part of the lot and freed up the rest for the leisure infrastructure, which here is club-scale: two pools, a multi-sport court, a gym, saunas and a kids’ playroom. The architectural signature is by Israel Rewini.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower, 17 floors of housing, 17 units, 1 apartment per floor.
• Floor areas: 356 sqm of private area and 679 sqm of total area from the 2nd to the 17th floor (16 units); 548 sqm private and 885 sqm total in the 1st-floor unit. The standard floor plan has 5 bedrooms, 4 of them suites.
• Parking: 5 in every unit, plus a private storage unit per apartment and visitor parking spaces.
• Structural highlights: one apartment per floor with a private hall; private storage unit per unit; 1,848 sqm plot.
• Registry and parameters: plot 1,848 sqm · 1 tower · 17 floors · 17 units · 1 apartment per floor · private areas of 356 sqm and 548 sqm · total areas of 679 sqm and 885 sqm · 5 bedrooms · 4 suites · 5 parking spaces · 1 private storage unit per unit · delivered February 2013.

Leisure and facilities

• Covered pool with lap lane
• Outdoor pool
• Gym
• Saunas
• Multi-sport court
• Playground
• Kids’ playroom
• Party room
• Private storage unit per unit
• Visitor parking spaces

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Santa Cecília: the address

Alameda Barrosi runs along the seam between Santa Cecíliai and Higienópolisi — a Santa Cecília address for the post office, a Higienópolis life in practice. It is the central band where São Paulo kept its best-served territory: the subway on foot via Estação Marechal Deodoroi, the Sala São Paulo and the Teatro São Pedro a few minutes away, Shopping Pátio Higienópolisi and Praça Vilaboim on the other side, and the row of schools and hospitals that makes the neighbouring district chosen by families even before the house itself. It is a historic fabric under renewal, with period architecture and absolute centrality — and very little land left for a new very-high-end launch.