Villa Rica Cerqueira César

History

Villa Rica is one of the established residential addresses on Alameda Tietê and comes to market with no documented authorship: neither the project, nor the development, nor the delivery date appear in any verifiable public source. This is common among Jardinsi towers built before the era of developer websites, and the encyclopedia prefers the empty field to a guess. What the public record supports is the essential, and it is enough: the condominium occupies a 1,272 sqm fiscal lot on Alameda Tietê, and what stands on it is a single tower, 62.4 metres tall, mapped under its own name in the city’s cartographic base.

• Concept: a large four-bedroom apartment with four parking spaces in a single tower, on a lot that today would fit far more units — the format the block no longer reproduces.
• Curiosities: the tower has a 247 sqm footprint on a 1,272 sqm lot: the building occupies less than a fifth of the land, and everything else is setback and open space — a proportion that has practically disappeared from the feasibility math of current launches. And beware the name: São Paulo has at least seven other condominiums called “Vila Rica” or “Villa Rica” — from Bela Vista to Higienópolis, from Jardim Europa to Lapa — and none of them is this one. The house’s Villa Rica is the one at Alameda Tietê, 460.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single tower, standing free on the lot and set back from the alameda’s building line. The city’s cartographic base registers 62.4 metres in height over a 247 sqm footprint — a slender-slab proportion, with a floor plan that comes close to the footprint itself and therefore occupies nearly the entire available floor plate. The units in circulation are all four-bedroom, with four parking spaces, between 200 and 231 sqm. The architectural project’s signature is not publicly documented and, for that reason, is not attributed here.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower.
• Floor areas: 200 to 231 sqm in the units in circulation, all with 4 bedrooms.
• Parking: 4.
• Structural highlights: 1,272 sqm plot; single tower 62.4 m tall with only a 247 sqm footprint — about one-fifth of the lot occupied by the building, the rest in setbacks and open space.
• Registry and parameters: fiscal lot of 1,272 sqm · 1 tower · 4 bedrooms · 4 parking spaces · private areas of 200 to 231 sqm · building height 62.4 m · registry jurisdiction 13º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi (Cerqueira César sub-district) · zoning ZM, Law 16.402/2016.

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Cerqueira César: the address

Cerqueira Césari is the registry-office name for a good part of what the city calls Jardinsi. Alameda Tietê is one of the short alamedas in the group — it runs parallel to Rua Oscar Freirei and Alameda Franca, between Rua Padre João Manuel and Rua Augusta, and for that reason carries almost only resident traffic. From this address you can walk to the Oscar Freire shop windows, the tables and the galleries that made the neighbourhood’s name, and drive in minutes to Avenida Paulistai and Avenida Rebouçasi. It is a residential core that has aged well because it never depended on novelty: the street grid, the street-level shops and the tree cover have been consolidated for decades, and very little land remains for going vertical.