Reserva Figueiredo

History

In 1940, the Figueiredo family acquired a property in the Vila Inglesa area of Campos do Jordão. The land was a natural asset: pines and araucarias, lakes, streams, a waterfall and a precious stretch of Atlantic Forest. Chácara Figueiredo, as the family came to call it, was preserved across decades and generations — keeping its rural character and its native reserve intact.

The subdivision was born from this inheritance, and the project was built around it: across 416,000 square metres, only 87 plots were opened, preserving 61% of the total area as native forest. The development received GRAPROHAB approval in 2013, a Municipal permit in 2014 and had the subdivision recorded at the Campos do Jordão Property Registry Office on 6 March 2015.

• Concept: the subdivision as a frame for the forest — few plots, forest masses closing the perimeter, and the existing nature as the site layout, not as landscaping.
• Curiosities: the surrounding forest masses provide natural isolation for the subdivision — privacy here is topographic and vegetal, not built. Native and exotic species coexist among the plots and trails: orchids, bromeliads, ferns, araucarias, wild pine, manacá-da-serra, guamirim, jacatirão and jacaranda, alongside eucalyptus, cedars, chestnut trees, peach trees, rhododendrons and pines. The fauna catalogued on site exceeds 80 species identified among birds and animals.

Architecture and aesthetics

A subdivision has no façade — it has a site layout, and here it is entirely designed around what already existed. The internal route begins at Birds’ Path and passes the main gatehouse, in Alto do Capivari; it continues through the Chestnut Trees Zen Area and the circulation lanes to the lakes with bridges, crossed by their own entrance archway. Lanes link the avenues to the trails, and the Waterfall Trail closes the circuit. There are more than five kilometres of trail within the perimeter.

The gathering centre is what the development calls its “boutique leisure”: a dining area, outdoor lounges with a fireplace and a fire-pit plaza by the lakes, a grass tennis court, a playful playground with outdoor fitness, and a pet play area with an agility circuit. It is not a city condominium clubhouse — it is a sequence of outdoor gathering spaces, sized for 87 families.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: gated subdivision with 87 single-family residential plots — one house per plot, no towers.
• Sizes: plots of 1,000 m² to 3,500 m².
• Parking: set by each residence’s own design.
• Structural highlights: total area of 416,000 m², with 239,000 m² of preserved green area and 61% of the total area as native forest · 10 springs · lakes with bridges · more than 5 km of trails · private waterfall · full infrastructure for water, sewage, power, paving and cable TV · gatehouses with 24-hour security · plots ready to build on.
• Registry and parameters: gated subdivision in the municipality of Campos do Jordãoi · GRAPROHAB approval no. 001/2013 · Municipal approval permit on 27/06/2014, case no. 20.918/2013 · CETESB licensing case 000000310009/2014, authorisation no. 000122546/14, TCRA no. 122545/2014 · subdivision recorded at the Cartório de Registro de Imóveis de Campos do Jordão under R-2 in title deed no. 27.366, on 06/03/2015 · main gatehouse in Alto do Capivari.

Leisure and facilities

• Dining area
• Outdoor lounges with fireplace
• Fire-pit plaza, by the lakes
• Grass tennis court
• Playful playground and outdoor fitness
• Pet play area with agility circuit
• More than 5 km of marked trails, including the Waterfall Trail and Birds’ Path
• Private waterfall
• Lakes with bridges and their own entrance archway
• Chestnut Trees Zen Area
• 24-hour security gatehouses

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Campos do Jordão: the address

Campos do Jordãoi is not a neighbourhood: it is Brazil’s highest city, at about 1,600 metres in the Serra da Mantiqueira, which São Paulo adopted as its winter retreat. The high end concentrates in the Capivari and Alto do Capivari area, where gated subdivisions occupy former family estates — and Reserva Figueiredo is five minutes from Vila Capivari, the city’s dining and shopping centre. The distances that define the journey are by road: 49.3 km to the Governador Carvalho Pinto Highway, 50.3 km to the Presidente Dutra, 44.7 km to Taubaté, 83.4 km to São José dos Campos and 172 km to São Paulo. What sustains value here is scarcity combined with a seasonality that is the inverse of the coast: while the sea lives its summer, the mountains live their winter, and the July season — with the Winter Festival, one of the oldest classical music festivals in Latin America — fills the city with a buying public.