Lignea

History

Lignea is a development by Alfa Realtyi, built by ROCONTECi, with an architectural project by Patricia Anastassiadisi and landscaping by Rodrigo Oliveirai. The development’s argument is topographical before it is architectural: Rua Bahia runs along one of the highest elevations in São Paulo, and the plot sits at the final stretch of the street, the most secluded part, where through-traffic has already disappeared. It was this combination — high elevation and a street with no use for those merely passing through — that defined the concept of one apartment per floor, facing the view. The development will go to market once the incorporation memorandum has been registered; this entry records the project, not a condominium life that has not yet begun.

• Concept: a sculptural project with one residence per floor, designed to widen horizons at one of the highest points in the city.
• Curiosities: each of the 24 units has its own multi-purpose private area, added to the apartment’s floor area — 17 m² or more in the standard unit and 31 m² in the garden and penthouse units. This is what makes the same apartment advertised as 285 m² of floorplan and 303 m² of total area.

Architecture and aesthetics

Patricia Anastassiadisi signs the architecture here, not only the interiors as is more common in her portfolio — the result is a volume treated as sculpture, whose reason for being is its openness to the landscape. With a single apartment per floor, the plan does not need to negotiate the facade with a neighbour on the same level: all four orientations belong to the same home, and the view stops being one privileged room and becomes the condition of every one of them. The landscaping is by Rodrigo Oliveirai, who distributes tree-lined plazas and a lounge terrace across the base of the building.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower, 1 apartment per floor, 24 units (22 standard, 1 garden and 1 duplex penthouse).
• Floor areas: 303 m² in the standard unit (285 m² of apartment plus a multi-purpose space from 17 m²), with 4 suites; garden unit of 639 m² (607 m² plus 31 m² of multi-purpose space); duplex penthouse of 576 m² (545 m² plus 31 m²).
• Parking: 3 spaces.
• Structural highlights: a private multi-purpose area added to each unit, one apartment per floor and construction on the highest-elevation stretch of the street.
• Registry and parameters: 1 tower · 1 unit per floor · 24 units (22 standard, 1 garden and 1 duplex penthouse) · 4 suites · 3 parking spaces · private areas of 303 m² (standard), 639 m² (garden) and 576 m² (penthouse) · registered with the 5º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi · ZEU zoning. (Launch: registry parameters to be consolidated in the incorporation memorandum.)

Leisure and facilities

• Heated indoor pool
• Fitness centre
• Sauna with shower
• Gourmet area
• Lounge terrace
• Tree-lined plazas
• Children’s playroom
• Playground
• Lobby
• Delivery room

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Higienópolis: the address

Higienópolisi is a neighbourhood that reads like an archive: entire blocks of fine twentieth-century Brazilian architecture, tree-lined low-speed streets and a neighbourhood commerce that has survived the city growing up around it. Rua Bahia is one of its spines, and the elevated stretch — the one at number 1033 — is the most residential of all, far from the bustle of Shopping Pátio Higienópolisi and Avenida Angélicai, yet only a few minutes from both. Nearby stand FAAPi and Parque Buenos Airesi, and Praça Vilaboimi gathers the cafés and restaurants that give the neighbourhood the rhythm of a European quarter it lays claim to. The connection to the rest of the city runs through Avenida Doutor Arnaldoi and Avenida Pacaembui on one side, and Avenida Paulistai on the other — Paulista is close enough to be useful and far enough not to intrude.