Location São Paulo (Brazil)
Client ERC / GR / Huma
Area 11.910 m²
Year 2018
Status Completed-Built
Typology Residential, Hotels
Awards
International Property Awards, Central and South America Group, “High-end residential development”.
Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat 2019, “Best Skyscraper in the world in the category of less than 100m in height”
Photography Nelson Kon
Team Fermín Vázquez, Sonia Cruz, Aline Foltran, Albert Freixes, Francesc de Fuentes, Peco Mulet, Gemma Ojea, Marc Pi, David Sebastian, Miguel Yurrita
“Respectful singularity”.
The residential tower is located in São Paulo’s Itaim Bibi neighborhood, a sector undergoing a profound transformation that is moving from the traditional fabric of single-family homes in horizontal extensions to a profile of high-rise buildings that meet the city’s growing residential demand. The building seeks to emphasize its slenderness and to stand out, without gratuitous stridency, in the monotonous sea of undifferentiated skyscrapers of São Paulo as a “respectful singularity”.
The 25-story building houses 123 small apartments or rooms, with large individual terraces. The project is approached from the perspective of maximizing the two main directions of vision from each apartment, while responding to the client’s requirement to generate an equivalent terrace for each unit and cityscape views at cores and lifts, all in a very restrictive dimensional plot. The tower sits on a plinth of car parks and common spaces. Social spaces are arranged in an intermediate floor providing its distinct identity and dividing the tower in two parts.
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