Castagneto

History

Delivered in December 2004 by Elias Victor Nigrii, Castagneto is one of the developer’s most recent addresses — known in the market by the initials CEVN — on the street it practically wrote itself. Rua Bahia holds a small collection from the same hand: Coral Bayi, at no. 753, delivered in 1995, and Bay Five, at no. 700, are portfolio neighbours, and the method is always the same — small plot, single tower, one apartment per floor. Castagneto is the most concentrated version of the formula: instead of rising twenty-six floors like Coral Bay, it stayed at nine, trading height for scarcity.

• Concept: eight families and nothing more — the entire tower fits into nine floors, with one slab per apartment and private storage for each.
• Trivia: the developer’s brochure and the municipal register agree on the plot almost to the metre — 1,113 m² in one, 1,114 m² in the other. The duplex penthouse occupies the 8th and 9th floors and is nearly double the size of the standard apartment: 543 m² private and 939 m² total, against 292 m² and 575 m².
• Not to be confused with: this is the Castagneto on Rua Bahia, in Higienópolisi, built by CEVN — Elias Victor Nigrii. There is a second, disputed building with a similar name: Capanema 74i, on Rua Barão de Capanema, in Cerqueira Césari/Jardins, which the market registers sometimes as Edifício Capanema, sometimes as Edifício Castagneto — a real-world ambiguity, not a spelling error in this archive. They are distinct buildings, by distinct builders, in distinct neighbourhoods.

Architecture and aesthetics

Single tower, nine floors, one apartment per floor. Privacy does not come from a façade trick — with only one unit per slab, the lift opens into the family’s own hall, the floor plan occupies the entire floor and there is no shared wall or ventilation shaft between neighbours. The standard floor plans add up to 292 m² of private area and 575 m² of total area — the difference being what the developer gave in common area, garage and storage per family. The glass-enclosed terrace orients the living room to the west, over the Pacaembu valley, and the lobby is bulletproof, with access control. The architectural project’s authorship is not publicly documented and, for that reason, is not attributed here.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower, 9 floors, 8 units, 1 apartment per floor — 7 apartments from the 1st to the 7th floor and a duplex penthouse on the 8th and 9th.
• Sizes: 292 m² of private area and 575 m² of total area in the standard unit, with 4 bedrooms and 3 suites; 543 m² private and 939 m² total area in the duplex penthouse. The archive in circulation records units of up to 593 m².
• Parking: 4 fixed and marked spaces in the standard unit and 6 in the penthouse, with one private storage unit per apartment.
• Structural highlights: 1,113 m² plot for a single nine-floor tower; one apartment per slab; glass-enclosed terrace; bulletproof lobby with access control; private storage per unit.
• Registry and parameters: plot 1,113 m² · 1 tower · 9 floors · 8 units · 1 apartment per floor · 4 bedrooms · 3 suites · 4 to 6 parking spaces · 1 private storage unit per unit · private areas of 292 m² in the standard unit and 543 m² in the duplex penthouse · total areas of 575 m² and 939 m² · handover in December 2004 · registry jurisdiction 5º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi · zoning ZEU under Law 16.402/2016.

Leisure and facilities

• Pool
• Gym
• Playground
• Function room

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Higienópolis: the address

Higienópolisi is the neighbourhood where São Paulo settled down to live well long before it knew the city would grow towards the other side — and it never undid that decision. Rua Bahia runs through the strictly residential core, between Avenida Paulistai and Avenida Angélica, in a row of tree-lined streets where large-scale towers coexist with modern buildings from the 1950s and 1960s. Around it are Parque Buenos Airesi, Shopping Pátio Higienópolisi, FAAP, Mackenzie and the collection of traditional schools that makes the neighbourhood an address for families who choose a school before choosing a house; Hospital Sírio-Libanêsi and Avenida Paulistai are on the other side of Consolação, and Hospital Samaritanoi is a few blocks away. It is an address that does not depend on novelty: the street grid, the street-level shops and the tree cover have been established for decades, and the little remaining land is already built up.