Brasília Excellence

History

Completed in 2008, Brasília Excellence is the peak of a lineage. Escritório Brasília de Imóveisi — EBI, a Santana institution — gave the name Brasília to an entire series of buildings raised in the neighbourhood over decades: Classic, Exclusive, Evidence, Advanced, Celebration, Evolution, Luna, Majestic, Royale, Premiére. A good part of that series was designed by the office Alexandre Milleu Arquiteturai, based on Rua Alfredo Pujol itself, a few blocks from the works it signs; construction fell to Alimontii, a São Paulo builder with more than forty years in the trade, which executed the building as contracted builder. In the Excellence, the series’ formula was taken to its limit: an entire floor per family, more than half a thousand private square metres and a 4,700 m² plot — a size the North Zone rarely grants to a single residential address.

• Concept: one apartment per floor with more than 500 m² and automated infrastructure, in a neighbourhood that until then had no product of this scale — the launch material sold it as the North Zone’s first smart residential building.
• Trivia: the condominium has an official tennis court, an item almost non-existent in a São Paulo vertical building, possible only because the 4,700 m² plot accommodated the landscaping and the court without sacrificing the tower’s layout. The builder also describes the panoramic view the height allows: the city on one side and the Serra da Cantareira closing off the horizon on the other. And there is a spelling trap — the builder and part of the market write “Cristoffel”, with two f’s; the postal service registers the street as Doutor Guilherme Cristofel.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single tower, twenty-two storeys, two basement levels, one apartment per floor. The approach is declaredly neoclassical, a choice that gives the building the weight and refinement the builder attributes to its presence on the street — and that sets it apart from the contemporary crop that surrounded it afterwards. There are 24,240 m² of built area on a 4,700 m² plot. Social access happens through a double-height hall, and each family reaches the apartment via a gallery served by two social lifts, with a third service lift on an independent circuit. The terraces are wide and run along the tower’s face. The project’s authorship belongs to the office Alexandre Milleu Arquiteturai, which signs a good part of the Brasília series in Santana; the authors of the interiors and landscaping are not publicly documented and are therefore not attributed here.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower, 22 storeys, 2 basement levels, 22 units, 1 apartment per floor — 21 standard floors plus the duplex penthouse.
• Floor areas: 515 m² private area on the standard floor, with 5 suites; the builder records 530 m² of usable area and 1,060 m² of total area per unit. Listings in circulation record floor plans of up to 545 m².
• Parking spaces: 8 in the standard apartments and 10 in the penthouse, with individual storage per unit.
• Structural highlights: a 4,700 m² plot and 24,240 m² of built area; double-height social hall; social gallery with two social lifts and one service lift; master suite with his-and-hers bathrooms, independent closets and terrace; three-room living area with fireplace, home theatre, study, dining room joined to a terrace with barbecue, kitchen with wine cellar, silver room and independent private circulation; room automation, lighting, climate control, sensor-operated electric blinds and underfloor heating.
• Registry and parameters: plot 4,700 m² · total built area 24,240 m² · 1 tower · 22 storeys · 2 basement levels · 22 units · 1 apartment per floor · 5 suites · 8 to 10 parking spaces · private area of 515 m² on the standard floor · construction completed in 2008.

Leisure and facilities

• Official tennis court
• Multi-sport court
• Outdoor adult pool
• Outdoor children’s pool
• Indoor heated pool with lap lane
• Fitness room
• Dry sauna
• Steam sauna
• Party room
• Games room
• Jogging track
• Barbecue area
• Armoured guardhouse and gates with lock system
• Biometric access control in the lifts
• 24-hour monitored security room

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Santana: the address

Santanai is the neighbourhood the North Zone uses as its centre — and one of the few São Paulo addresses where the highest-end market went vertical without having to compete for land with offices: the corporate tower from the same family of developments was raised on Voluntários da Pátria, and the residential street stayed residential. Rua Doutor Guilherme Cristofel cuts through this strictly residential core, in a fabric of tree-lined streets where large-floor-area buildings follow one another in direct proximity. The neighbourhood has its own metro station, established street-level shops, schools, colleges and hospitals within walking distance, quick access to Marginal Tietê and the city centre — and a horizon that almost no other region of the capital offers: the Serra da Cantareira closing off the view to the north.