Green Wood Park

History

Green Wood Park was delivered in 1988, in the crop that verticalised Vila Nova Conceiçãoi while the neighbourhood was still a fabric of houses between Parque Ibirapuerai and Itaim Bibii. It is an address from the generation before the single, full-slab towers that dominate the street today: here the large size was resolved in two low towers set apart from each other, rather than in a single tall piece. The design authorship and the developer’s name are not publicly documented and, for that reason, are not attributed here.

• Concept: two towers instead of one, to let the plot breathe — the size rises little and the ground stays with the garden.
• Trivia: the municipal register measures the two towers at 262 m² and 247 m² of footprint, on a 1,880 m² plot. Together, they occupy just over a quarter of the plot: the rest is open area. The measured heights are 30.4 m and 27.7 m — practically twins, with a one-floor difference between them.

Architecture and aesthetics

Two towers of similar size, set in parallel on the same plot, with the common area and garden occupying most of the land between them and the street alignment. The choice is what defines the building: instead of concentrating the built area in a single tall tower, the project distributed it into two low volumes, which preserves cross views, sunlight and distance between neighbours in a block that was later densified. The standard floor plans have 260 m² with four bedrooms, two of them suites, a pantry, a laundry area, full staff quarters and a private storage unit — the complete programme of the São Paulo family apartment of the turn of the 1980s. The architectural design credit is not publicly documented.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 2 residential towers on a single condominium plot.
• Sizes: 260 m² of private area in the standard floor plan, with 4 bedrooms and 2 suites. The archive in circulation also records units of up to 520 m².
• Parking spaces: 3 covered in the standard floor plan, with private storage; there are records of units with 4.
• Structural highlights: two towers on a 1,880 m² plot, with about seventy per cent of the plot outside the built footprint; private storage per unit; full staff quarters.
• Registration and parameters: plot 1,880 m² · 2 towers · measured heights of 30.4 m and 27.7 m · footprints of 262 m² and 247 m² · 4 bedrooms · 2 suites · 3 to 4 parking spaces · private area of 260 m² in the standard unit · delivered in 1988 · registry jurisdiction 4º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi · ZM zoning under Lei 16.402/2016.

Leisure and facilities

• Pool
• Gym room
• Sauna
• Multi-sport court
• Playground
• Toy library
• Party room
• Barbecue
• 24-hour reception

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Vila Nova Conceição: the address

Vila Nova Conceiçãoi is the neighbourhood São Paulo turned into an address without ever ceasing to be a neighbourhood. Rua João Lourenço runs through the residential core, between Avenida Santo Amaroi and the edge of Parque Ibirapuerai, a few minutes’ walk from Praça Pereira Coutinhoi — the neighbourhood’s open-air living room, with the bakeries, restaurants and street market that give the area the street habit that the Jardinsi have and Itaim Bibii has lost. From here, the park, Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Limai and the corporate axis of Vila Olímpiai are all within a short radius, and Aeroporto de Congonhasi is a few minutes away via Avenida Santo Amaroi. It is one of the most expensive square metres in the country precisely because there is no plot left over: the neighbourhood is small, hemmed in and already built up.