Bioma Itaim

History

From Nortisi, with architecture by Studio Arthur Casasi, Bioma translates biophilic architecture into housing: the landscape invades the building. The driving idea is that of a suspended house — taking into the vertical what is expected of a house with a garden — and everything else follows from it, from the façade design to the choice of materials.

• Concept: the biophilic suspended house, where greenery, timber, concrete and glass are balanced.
• Trivia: the project holds GBC Brasil (Green Building Council) certification, with visual identity and signage by Nitschei.

Architecture and aesthetics

The façade is alive in the literal sense. Engineered-timber brise-soleils control sun exposure and ensure privacy without closing off the view; automated-irrigation planters run along the floors, so that the greenery is a cladding layer, not a balcony ornament. Timber, concrete, glass and vegetation are balanced within the same skin — Studio Arthur Casasi‘s reading for a plot in a built-up neighbourhood, where there is no spare land for a setback and the answer becomes filtering instead. There are two apartments per floor across fifteen storeys, with a private hall, motorised blinds in the suites and a generator covering one hundred per cent of the load, air conditioning included. Landscaping by Ricardo Cardimi.

Aesthetics and scarcity

• Aesthetics: biophilic and contemporary, in greenery, timber, concrete and glass.

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: single tower, 2 basement levels, ground floor and 15 storeys, 2 units per floor.
• Floor areas: 204.52 m² and 209.11 m² on the standard floor; 319.30 m² garden unit; duplex penthouses of 313.25 and 339.22 m².
• Parking spaces: 3 spaces on the standard floor, 4 on the penthouses, with a private hall.
• Structural highlights: generator covering 100% of the load (including air conditioning), heated pool, electric-car infrastructure and motorised blinds in the suites.

Leisure and facilities

• Fully equipped and decorated common areas
• With heated pool

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Itaim Bibi: the address

Two names for the same address

The plot sits on the border between Itaim Bibi and Vila Nova Conceição, and both names are legitimate. The postcode registers Vila Nova Conceição; the high-end market treats the address as Itaim Bibi, as Nortis does. This entry adopts the name in common use and keeps the other for those who search for it.

Rua Clodomiro Amazonas is the seam between Itaim Bibii and Vila Nova Conceiçãoi: on one side the neighbourhood that works, on the other the one with low blocks and some of the highest square-metre prices in the city. At number 121 the street is still a neighbourhood one — the market happens right there on Thursdays, the shops are on the corner, and JK Iguatemii is less than eight hundred metres’ walk away. Parque do Povoi is at the other end, about seven hundred metres away, and Faria Limai and JKi take care of work without requiring you to live on them. It is an address on the quiet side of the border, with the busy side a walk away — and in a neighbourhood of concrete, it is the street that explains why an entire building was designed around greenery.