Kiná Alto de Pinheiros

History

From RFMi, with architecture by Perkins&Willi, landscaping by Rodrigo Oliveirai and interiors by Triplex Arquiteturai, Kiná is a gated community of eight detached houses in Alto de Pinheirosi, near Parque Villa-Lobosi, Clube Alto de Pinheirosi and Colégio Santa Cruzi. Each house is arranged over basement, ground floor, upper floor and rooftop, anchoring the privacy of a house to the security of a gated compound.

• Concept: the real house, vertical and private, in a gated community of very few units.
• Curiosities: each house has a lift running to the rooftop and a garden with a private pool.

Architecture and aesthetics

The project’s gesture is to make the house vertical without turning it into an apartment: Perkins&Willi arranged each residence over four levels — basement, ground floor, upper floor and rooftop — connected by its own lift, so that the entire programme of a large house fits on the plot without consuming the land left over for the garden. The eight units are detached volumes, contemporary in style, and privacy comes from the distance between them: no wall is shared. Rodrigo Oliveirai‘s landscaping stitches the ground floor of each house to the garden with its private pool; the interiors are by Triplex Arquiteturai.

Aesthetics and scarcity

• Aesthetics: contemporary, in house format.

Technical specifications

Towers and units

condominium of 8 detached houses, with basement, ground floor, upper floor and rooftop, each with a lift.

Floor areas

from 569 to 978 m² (sources cite units of 802, 847 and 886 m²), with 4 suites.

Parking spaces

4 to 5 spaces, with storage room.

Structural features

lift running to the rooftop, garden with private pool, air-conditioning infrastructure and electric car charging point in the basement.

Registry and parameters

8 detached houses (basement, ground floor, upper floor and rooftop) · 4 bedrooms (suites) · 4 to 5 parking spaces · lift per house · areas of 569 to 978 m² · registered at the 10º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi · ZER-1 zoning (Exclusively Residential Zone) · unrestricted buildable potential · unrestricted height limit.

Leisure and facilities

• Full backup generator
• CCTV
• Security buffer at the entrances
• Pedestrian airlock
• Visitor parking space

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Alto de Pinheiros: the address

Rua Orobó sits in the stretch of Alto de Pinheirosi the law protects: an exclusively residential zone, where zoning bars tall buildings and commercial use and keeps the original Cia. City layout standing — large plot, set-back house, mature street trees. That’s why the neighbourhood stayed horizontal while the entire West Zone went vertical, and why a house condominium still makes sense here rather than being a picturesque exception. A short walk away are Parque Villa-Lobosi and Shopping Villa-Lobosi, Colégio Santa Cruzi and Clube Alto de Pinheirosi: a family’s entire routine handled within the neighbourhood itself, without crossing an avenue.