Casa Vila Nova

History

From Helbori, with architecture by São Paulo Arquitetosi, decoration by Dado Castello Brancoi and landscaping by Rodrigo Oliveirai, Casa Vila Nova is a boutique residential development conceived to bring the essence of a house and the well-being of greenery into the interior of the building. It is anchored where Vila Nova Conceiçãoi merges with Itaimi and Faria Limai, less than ten minutes’ walk from Parque Ibirapuerai.

• Concept: the essence of a house at boutique scale, with greenery brought into the building.
• Trivia: the location is a prime crossroads, at the point where Vila Novai meets Itaimi and Faria Limai.

Architecture and aesthetics

The figure that governs the project is on the title deed: the plot is 780 m² with only ten metres of frontage. A frontage like that forces the tower to be narrow and forces the design to solve vertically what a house would solve at ground level — hence the stated idea of bringing the essence of a house and its greenery into the building, with a single apartment per floor, eleven storeys and twelve units in total, from the garden unit to the duplex penthouse. With only one unit per slab, the floor plan crosses the building from front to back and receives light and views from both ends, which is what the short frontage had to offer. The architecture is by São Paulo Arquitetosi, an office known for its competition culture and conceptual rigour, which had already worked with Helbori on another product line. Decoration by Dado Castello Brancoi and landscaping by Rodrigo Oliveirai — an element that, in a building whose argument is greenery, stops being finishing and becomes programme.

Aesthetics and scarcity

• Aesthetics: contemporary and sophisticated, at boutique scale.

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: single tower, one apartment per floor, 12 units (1 garden, 10 standard and 1 duplex penthouse).
• Sizes: 183 m² in the standard unit, 229 m² in the garden unit and 353 m² in the duplex penthouse.
• Parking: 3 to 4 spaces.
• Structural highlights: 3 suites and panoramic views.
• Registry and parameters: plot 780 m² · frontage 10 m · 1 tower · 11 floors · 1 unit per floor · 12 units · 3 bedrooms · 3 parking spaces · 3 bathrooms · 2 lifts · private areas of 183 m² (standard) and 354 m² (penthouse) · registry jurisdiction 4º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi · zoning ZC · buildable potential 2x · height limit 48 m.

Leisure and facilities

• Heated pool
• Fitness
• Sauna
• Spa
• Garden
• Bicycle storage

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Vila Nova Conceição: the address

Vila Nova Conceição was born in 1936, from the subdivision of a former farm, and was laid out in house-sized plots. Rua Januário Miraglia is one of those that kept that fine grain: narrow fronts, short blocks — which is why the buildings here are slender and the condominiums small. A plot with ten metres of frontage does not fit a wide tower or club-style leisure facilities, which makes low density a consequence of the layout, not a marketing choice. It is also the stretch where the neighbourhood borders Itaim Bibii: the Edifício Corporate Parki helipad is two hundred and thirty-five metres away. Parque Ibirapuerai is on the other side, at six hundred and seventy — a little over ten minutes on foot, the distance beyond which the park stops being a backyard and becomes a feature.