Alphaville Residencial 10

History

Residencial 10 was established in July 1990, already in the mature phase of Alphavillei‘s occupation — the neighbourhood that engineers Yojiro Takaoka and Renato Albuquerque, partners at Albuquerque Takaokai, designed over five hundred hectares of the former Fazenda Tamboré, purchased in 1973. The original project was not residential: it was an industrial centre for non-polluting companies, and it was the need for housing for those companies’ executives that opened the first AlphaVille Residencial, in 1975. It was then realised that residential sales yielded more than commercial ones, and the developments began to be opened one by one, numbered in sequence. The tenth was built on the Santana de Parnaíbai side. The residents’ society that still manages the enclave today was established that same month of July 1990, and the residential development settled at around 590 residences.

• Concept: a gated development of single-family houses with its own club and a preserved forest inside the perimeter — the house is each family’s own design; what the society delivers is everything around it.
• Trivia: the residential development is home to Mata Voturussu, an environmental preservation area protected within its own wall, with permanent monitoring and an environmental education programme for residents. The management also maintains a community vegetable garden, a seedling nursery and fruit trees in the common areas, distributes green bags for selective waste collection, and takes used batteries at a collection point installed at the gatehouse. A bakery, mini-market and street market operate inside the development: no one needs to cross the gatehouse to buy bread.

Architecture and aesthetics

In a housing development, the design is not in the façade — it is in the layout, in what was decided to be preserved and in what was agreed not to be built. Here the guiding principle is continuous greenery: the society describes the development as predominantly green and maintains landscaped areas along the entire edge of the perimeter, besides the Caminho dos Jerivás, the tree-lined trail that crosses the residential development, and Praça Irerê, one of several squares distributed along the avenues. The houses are unrestricted in design. Each residence is its own owner’s design, and the repertoire runs from the 1990s crop to contemporary buildings of more than a thousand square metres, with wine cellars, lifts and photovoltaic generation. What gives the development unity is not style: it is the tree cover and the scale of the lot.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: gated development of single-family houses — around 590 residences, one per lot, no towers.
• Areas: each residence is its own owner’s design; there is no standard floor plan.
• Parking: determined by each house’s own design.
• Structural highlights: Mata Voturussu, an environmental preservation area within the perimeter · community vegetable garden, seedling nursery and fruit trees in the common areas · selective waste collection with green bags distributed by the management · battery collection point at the gatehouse · internal mini-market and bakery · periodic street market.
• Registry and parameters: single-family residential use · around 590 residences · managed by the Sociedade Alphaville Residencial 10, established on 6 July 1990 · administrative headquarters at Avenida Bom Pastor, 1000 · municipality of Santana de Parnaíbai, Alphavillei district.

Leisure and facilities

• Football pitch
• Tennis courts
• Multi-sport courts
• Beach tennis and footvolley courts
• Golf and mini-golf training centre
• Bocce court
• Skate track
• Gym
• Atelier das Artes
• Function room
• Children’s playgrounds
• Praça Irerê
• Caminho dos Jerivás
• Belvedere
• Mini-market
• Bakery
• Street market

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Alphaville: the address

Alphavillei is the first Brazilian attempt to create an entire neighbourhood from scratch, and the one that succeeded. Split between Baruerii and Santana de Parnaíbai, it was born industrial — HP, Sadia, Du Pont, Confab — and turned residential through the back door, when those companies’ executives wanted to live close to work. Today it is home to more than 12,000 residences, an estimated resident population of 35,000 people and a floating population of 200,000 a day, with 24-hour hospitals, schools, bank branches and two large shopping centres — Iguatemi Alphavillei and Shopping Tamboréi. The numbered residential developments run from zero to twelve, skipping number seven, and the last to be launched still in the 20th century was Alphaville 12. Next door, Tamboréi repeated the formula with more lots and fewer towers. The connection to the capital runs via the Rodovia Castello Brancoi.