Villa Serena

History

Villa Serena is by BM8i, a São Paulo developer headquartered on Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Limai, and was designed for a programme São Paulo has practically stopped producing: the large, new, gated house, within the city. There are four independent residences in a single condominium, each with its own lot of 380 to 432 sqm and built area between 879 and 931 sqm.

The land is the argument. It sits on Avenida Doutor Alberto Penteado, facing the new Fasano Tennis Club and a walk from Clube Paineiras do Morumbii — in one of the few stretches of São Paulo where the house was never replaced by the tower. The architecture is by Architects Officei, the practice of Greg Bousquet, who founded the firm after more than two decades as one of the partners at Triptyque; the landscaping is by Embyái and the security design is by Haganá. The developer states an expected delivery for 2026, with construction underway; the year is not fixed here until construction is completed.

• Concept: a refuge of privacy in the middle of the city — four autonomous houses, each with its own pool and garden, under a single security perimeter.
• Curiosities: every house has a private lift and garage space for six vehicles, with infrastructure for solar power and generators serving both the private and the common areas.

Architecture and aesthetics

Architects Officei‘s design concept starts from the existing vegetation. Cidade Jardimi is one of the rare São Paulo neighbourhoods with mature, large-scale tree cover, and the project works to make it a pre-existing condition rather than a backdrop: the landscaping by Embyái — a studio that thinks of the garden as an ecosystem, not as a composition — celebrates the block’s arboreal exuberance and is what stitches the four layouts together.

Inside each house, the programme is that of a complete single-family residence: a large living room integrated with the gourmet balcony, a garden connected to the living room, four suites each with their own balcony, a home theatre, a solarium and a multi-purpose area. Internal vertical circulation is resolved by lift — a decision that changes the floor plan, because it frees the staircase from being the sole means of circulation and allows the floors to be arranged without being bound to the foot of the stairs.

Security is treated as a layer of architecture, not as equipment: the lobby with armoured glass, the pedestrian entrance enclosure and the delivery space sit on the perimeter, before each house’s own garden.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: gated condominium of 4 independent houses.
• Floor areas: private area of 879 to 931 sqm per house, on lots of 380 to 432 sqm; from 4 suites with exclusive balconies.
• Parking: 6 per house, with electric-vehicle charging infrastructure.
• Structural highlights: private pool and garden in each house · private lift · infrastructure for solar power and air conditioning · generators for private and common areas · private electric-vehicle charging point · lobby with armoured glass · pedestrian entrance enclosure · delivery space · security design by Haganá.
• Registry and parameters: fiscal lot 300.004.0064 (LT 14B and 15B), with 1,311 sqm of area in the municipal registry · registry jurisdiction 18º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi. (Launch: registry parameters to be finalised at the completion registration.)

Leisure and facilities

• Private pool in each house
• Private garden integrated with the living room
• Home theatre
• Solarium
• Multi-purpose area
• Gourmet balcony integrated with the living room
• Shared gym
• Delivery space
• Lobby with armoured glass

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Cidade Jardim: the address

Two names for the same address

The post office registers this stretch as Jardim Sílvia — a registry name almost nobody uses. The market, the residents and anyone searching around here say Cidade Jardim. The listing adopts the name in use: it’s the one people search for, advertise under and buy by.

Avenida Doutor Alberto Penteado runs through the upper part of Cidade Jardimi, in a stretch that resisted verticalisation through a combination of hillside topography, large lots and an organised neighbourhood. It is a house neighbourhood, and remains one — which in practice means a street with local traffic, large-scale tree cover and a density the rest of the upscale south zone lost decades ago. All the anchors are within reach: Clube Paineiras do Morumbii a few minutes’ walk away, Shopping Cidade Jardimi and Parque Alfredo Volpii just beyond, the new Fasano Tennis Club across the avenue, and the way out to the city via Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Limai and Marginal Pinheirosi. The postal code for number 122 registers Jardim Sílvia, the original subdivision of this stretch; the developer and the market say Cidade Jardim — it’s the same hillside, with two names from different eras.