Maison Josephine

History

By Zaboi, with design by Itamar Berezin Arquitetura e Urbanismoi, Maison Josephine is part of the developer’s Maison luxury line, on Alameda Casa Brancai, near São Paulo Athletic Clubi. The floor plans range from 260 sq m up to the largest units, likely penthouses, in a quiet, tree-lined address of the Jardinsi.

• Concept: the high-end living of the Maison line, with spacious floor plans, on a prime street of the Jardinsi.
• Curiosities: it is part of Zaboi‘s Maison collection, a sibling of Maison Gisellei, Maison Helenai and Maison Madeleinei.

Architecture and aesthetics

A design by Itamar Berezin Arquitetura e Urbanismoi worked out from a hard constraint: twenty metres of frontage and just under a thousand square metres of land — the measure of a house plot in the garden neighbourhood. On top of it, the firm stacked fifteen storeys of a single unit each, which gives every apartment all four orientations and does away with any shared wall with a neighbour. The façade is narrow and tall, and the volume that interrupts it is the penthouse, almost three times the size of the standard floor, where the building ends. The interior design and landscaping credits are not publicly documented and, for that reason, are not attributed here.

Aesthetics and scarcity

• Design: classic high-end.

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: single tower, 15 storeys, 16 units (1 per floor).
• Floor areas: 262 sq m on the standard floor and 740 sq m on the penthouse, 4 bedrooms and 3 suites.
• Parking: 4 spaces on the standard floor.
• Structural features: spacious floor plans, with piped gas.
• Registry and parameters: 959 sq m plot · 20 m frontage · 1 tower · 15 storeys · 16 units (1 per floor) · 4 bedrooms · 4 parking spaces · 4 bathrooms · 2 lifts · private areas of 262 sq m (standard) and 740 sq m (penthouse) · registry jurisdiction 4º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi · ZEU zoning · 4x buildable potential · unrestricted height limit.

Leisure and facilities

• 24-hour reception
• Gym
• Pool
• Party room
• Barbecue area
• Playground

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Jardim América: the address

Two names for the same address

The plot sits on the border between Jardim América and Jardim Paulista, and both names are legitimate. The postcode registers Jardim Paulista; the high-end market treats the address as Jardim América. This entry adopts the name in common use and keeps the other for those searching by it.

Alameda Casa Brancai is one of the streets that Companhia City opened at the start of the twentieth century, when it subdivided Jardim Américai over Barry Parker’s layout, and what you see of it today is still a consequence of that design: house plots, one by one, with a mandatory front setback. When the buildings arrived, they arrived at that same measure — each one occupying its own plot and keeping the front garden —, and that is why the block at number 1077 is tall without being dense, with narrow buildings separated by strips of greenery instead of buildings pressed together. The Thursday market sets up on the alameda itself, one corner away; São Paulo Athletic Clubi, Jardim Pamplona Shoppingi and Rua Oscar Freirei are all within walking distance.