Quintas Cidade Jardim

History

From FFii, with architecture by Gui Mattosi and landscaping by Cris Bermudezi, the Quintas Cidade Jardim anchors in Cidade Jardimi as a rare condominium of ultra-high-end houses, a few steps from Parque Alfredo Volpii, Clube Paineirasi and Hospital Albert Einsteini. The inspiration comes from Portuguese country houses and Portuguese modernism, with the serenity of a sheltered anchorage. The houses have not yet been delivered: the developer states the works are at an early stage, with the land prepared and the foundation under way, and so no delivery year is fixed here.

• Concept: the real house, in a gated condominium of very few units, with Portuguese inspiration, in Cidade Jardimi.
• Curiosities: each house has four storeys, with a private pool and a solarium on the roof.

Architecture and aesthetics

The declared reference is Portuguese, and it shows less in ornament than in proportion: clear volumes, generous openings and natural light treated as a material — hallmarks of Gui Mattosi, who works with precise lines, large spans and integration with the landscape, without repeating a formula from one project to the next. The gesture that defines each residence is the inversion of the back garden: since the exclusively residential zoning lot calls for verticality, the back garden rises to the rooftop and becomes a solarium, an outdoor dining area and a pool. Add to this an unusual degree of customisation, possible precisely because there are so few units, and the result is a set in which no house needs to look like its neighbour. Landscaping by Cris Bermudezi.

Aesthetics and scarcity

• Aesthetics: contemporary with inspiration from Portuguese country houses.

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: condominium of 7 to 8 houses, each with 4 storeys (basement with 4 parking spaces and staff quarters; ground floor with integrated living area, outdoor area and kitchen; 1st floor with 4 suites, master with walk-in closet; rooftop with outdoor dining area, barbecue, solarium and private pool). Plot of about 3,166 m².
• Sizes: from 770 to 1,600 m², 4 suites.
• Parking: 4 spaces.
• Structural highlights: private pool per house, rooftop solarium and high customisation.
• Registry and parameters: plot 8,672 m² · frontage 113 m · 8 units (houses) · 4 bedrooms · 3 parking spaces (registry baseline; project provides for 4) · registry floor area of 314 m² (baseline) · developer FFI Investimentos e Participações Ltdai · registry jurisdiction 18º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi · zoning ZER-1 · unrestricted buildability ratio · unrestricted height limit.

Leisure and facilities

• Outdoor dining area
• Solarium
• Garden
• Armoured gatehouse

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Cidade Jardim: the address

Two names for the same address

The plot sits on the border between Cidade Jardim and Jardim Guedala, and both names are legitimate. The postcode registers Jardim Guedala; the high-end market treats the address as Cidade Jardim. This entry adopts the name in common use and keeps the other for anyone searching by it.

It’s worth saying clearly: the postal address is Jardim Guedalai, not Cidade Jardim — which is not a catalogue error, it is the exact description of where the condominium is. The horizontal Cidade Jardimi, the large-plot half that sits behind the Marginal Pinheirosi complex, does not end at a line: it dissolves into the wooded hills of Morumbii, and Rua Doutor João Neves Neto falls right in that transition, with Parque Alfredo Volpii three hundred metres away and The British College of Brazili on the next block. For a buyer, the useful reading is this: the neighbourhood, the school and the woodland are those of Cidade Jardim; the density and the domestic quiet are those of Guedala, which is even lower-rise and more secluded.