Upcon Itacema

History

Itacema Project — the name under which Upconi launched and sold the building, now formally known as Residencial Upcon Itacema — was born on a 1,401 m² plot on Rua Itacema, in Itaim Bibi, and was delivered in 2019. The developer handed the project to Triptyque Architecturei, a French-Brazilian firm known for treating the façade as a living system, and the landscaping to Mera Arquiteturai. The idea organising everything is a single one: instead of a building with one floor plan repeated twenty times, a building with five different unit types stacked — garden houses at ground level, compact apartments in the middle, duplexes and penthouses at the top.

• Concept: a building that doesn’t choose just one type of resident. The same tower accommodates someone who wants 52 m² and someone who wants 203 m² with a garden — and still delivers the same leisure amenities and the same lobby to everyone.
• Curiosities: the developer delivered the common areas already equipped and decorated to Triptyque’s own design, with landscaping in grey tones chosen to give the ensemble a contemporary atmosphere; and designed the lounge bar and the pool bar ready to host a bar and light-meal operation run by the condominium’s management. Each unit left the construction site with an electronic lock, a USB socket and a socket prepared for an electric car and bicycle — in 2019.

Architecture and aesthetics

The gesture that defines the building is on the street, before the door: the guardhouse set back from the building line and raised above the pavement, and beside it a green panel more than seventeen metres wide, which replaces the wall with vegetation and resolves privacy and visibility in the same piece. From the pavement inwards, the logic is one of stacked types: the garden houses occupy the low level, with their own courtyard; the apartments and duplexes the middle band; the penthouses, the crown. The landscaping by Mera Arquiteturai works in restrained grey tones, contrary to the lush green the neighbourhood usually calls for — a deliberate decision, to let the architecture speak louder than the garden. The communal spaces were designed and delivered decorated by Triptyque Architecturei itself.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower, 43 units, distributed across five unit types.
• Floor areas: apartments of 52 to 90 m²; garden houses of 196 and 203 m²; duplexes of 100 to 126 m²; penthouses of 91 to 98 m² and of 153 to 162 m². From 1 to 2 suites.
• Parking spaces: 1, 2 or 3.
• Structural differentiators: level II-A armoured guardhouse, set back and raised above the pavement; green panel over 17 m wide facing the street; generator serving lifts, gates, pumps and common areas as well as the private units; monitoring in every lift; electronic lock on units and on access to the leisure amenities; USB socket and socket for electric car and bicycle; air-conditioning infrastructure in the living room and bedroom; hot water delivered complete and operational; wi-fi in the common areas; 1,401 m² plot.
• Registration and parameters: plot 1,401 m² · 1 tower · 43 units · private areas from 52 m² to 203 m² · 1 to 2 suites · 1 to 3 parking spaces · delivered 2019 · registry jurisdiction 4º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi · zoning ZC.

Leisure and facilities

• Pool
• Pool bar
• Spa and massage
• Fitness
• Open-air gourmet area
• Lounge bar
• Snack bar
• Party lounge
• Games lounge
• Lobby
• Wi-fi in common areas
• Level II-A armoured guardhouse
• Generator

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Itaim Bibi: the address

Itaim Bibii is the neighbourhood where São Paulo brought the office home and found it liked it. Rua Itacema starts at Avenida São Gabriel and runs through the residential heart, tree-lined and low-traffic, a few blocks from Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Limai — which is where the city’s money works — and from the triangle of tables and storefronts of Joaquim Florianoi and Rua Tabapuã. Shopping Iguatemi São Pauloi sits on one side; Avenida Juscelino Kubitscheki, Vila Olímpiai and Estação Vila Olímpiai on the other; and Jardim Europai starts on the other side of the avenue. It’s an address that combines two things that rarely coexist: a quiet street and a ten-minute walk to the financial centre.