Trinidad

History

Trinidad is a building from the mid-1980s crop in Higienópolisi, raised on a 709 m² plot in the heart of the neighbourhood. The condominium was established on 9 December 1986 — the date of the condominium’s registration with the Receita Federal, which remains active under the name Condomínio Edifício Trinidad. It is the only date that can be stated with confidence about the building: the market records in circulation disagree with each other on the completion year, and for that reason this field is left blank in this entry.

What the municipal registry confirms is the shape. The tax lot registered with the City on number 1254 has a declared use of condominium and 709 m² of area; the renovation permit approved in April 2011 describes a block of fifteen storeys; and the floor projection measured by the municipal survey is 216 m² — practically the size of a single apartment. The three pieces of information add up: one house fits per slab here, and that’s how the building was made.

• Concept: one apartment per floor on a narrow Higienópolis plot — privacy solved by the floor plan, not by the wall.
• Curiosities: Trinidad shares a tax block with the addresses on Avenida Higienópolis and Rua Doutor Veiga Filho, which places it within the neighbourhood’s historic perimeter; the post office, however, delivers the whole street as Santa Cecília. Another particularity is spelling: much of the market listings publish the name as Trindad, without the second “i” — the Receita Federal and the City permit register it as Trinidad.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single tower, fifteen storeys, one apartment per floor. The siting belongs to a time when Higienópolis plots still allowed a wide floor area without multiplying units: with a single slab per family, the lift opens straight into the private hall, the floor plan occupies the entire projection and there is no shared wall with a neighbour. The standard units bring three bedrooms, all suites, and four to five bathrooms; the largest floor plan in circulation is a 378 m² penthouse. The architectural authorship is not publicly documented and, for that reason, is not attributed here.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower, 15 storeys, 1 apartment per floor.
• Floor areas: 192 to 210 m² in the standard floor plans, with 3 bedrooms — all suites — and 4 to 5 bathrooms. The largest floor plan on record is a 378 m² penthouse.
• Parking spaces: 3.
• Structural highlights: one apartment per floor; a 709 m² plot with a floor projection of 216 m², a measurement that corresponds practically to the size of a single unit.
• Registry and parameters: 709 m² plot · 1 tower · 15 storeys · 1 apartment per floor · 3 bedrooms · 3 suites · 4 to 5 bathrooms · 3 parking spaces · private areas from 192 m² to 378 m² · registry jurisdiction 2º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi · ZM zoning (Law 16.402/2016).

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Higienópolis: the address

Higienópolisi is the neighbourhood São Paulo built to live well in before it had avenues, and which never needed to reinvent itself to stay expensive. Rua Doutor Albuquerque Lins runs parallel to Avenida Angélica, in the stretch where the neighbourhood is still made of leafy blocks and large-floor-area residential buildings — Shopping Pátio Higienópolisi, Parque Buenos Airesi and the region’s network of schools and universities settle the whole week on foot, and Estação Santa Cecíliai and Estação Marechal Deodoroi are a few blocks away. A cartographic note worth recording: the post office classifies the whole of Rua Doutor Albuquerque Lins as Santa Cecília, while the Receita Federal and the City permit for this same lot register Higienópolis — which is also how the market sells the address. This entry follows the postcode in the address field and the established usage in the neighbourhood field.