Villa Adriana

History

Delivered in 2002, Villa Adriana belongs to the wave that turned Rua Frederic Chopin into one of Jardim Europai‘s highest-density high-end streets. It is a short block, wedged between Esporte Clube Pinheirosi and Parque do Povoi, that in little more than a decade received a sequence of one-apartment-per-floor towers — and Villa Adriana is among the first. The building’s approach is classical in design and radical in density: eighteen floors, one family per slab. The authorship of the architectural design and the company responsible for the development are not documented in a public source and are therefore not attributed here.

• Concept: one apartment per floor on a short, tree-lined street — privacy solved by the floor plan, and the view solved by the greenery of the clubs and the park.
• Curiosities: the units were designed with a continuous balcony serving the entire social area, so that the third suite can be absorbed into the living room and become a TV room or office without structural work. That is why almost no apartment in the building currently on the market has the same floor plan as the one directly above or below it.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single tower, eighteen floors, one apartment per floor. The design language is that of contemporary classicism that dominated Jardim Europai at the turn of the 2000s: a facade of symmetrical, mostly solid proportions rather than glazed, a decorated social lobby, a marked crown. With a single unit per slab, the elevator opens into each family’s private hall and the floor plan occupies the entire slab — with no shared wall and natural light on all four sides. The balcony runs along the entire social front and is the element that organizes the floor plan.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower, 18 floors, 1 apartment per floor.
• Floor areas: 278 to 295 m² in the units currently on the market, with 3 bedrooms, all suites. The listings archive also records floor plans of up to 515 m² with 4 bedrooms.
• Parking: 3 to 4 in the standard type; up to 6 in the larger units.
• Structural highlights: one apartment per floor with a private hall; continuous balcony integrated into the entire social area.
• Registry and parameters: 1 tower · 18 floors · 1 apartment per floor · 3 bedrooms (3 suites) in the standard type · 3 to 6 parking spaces · private areas from 278 m² to 515 m² · delivered 2002.

Leisure and facilities

• Gym
• Party room
• Garden
• 24-hour concierge

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in meters

Jardim Europa: the address

Two names for the same address

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

Jardim Europai is the garden-neighborhood that became a tower address without losing the street. Frederic Chopin is a short, tree-lined side street in one of the city’s few pockets truly surrounded by open space: on one side Esporte Clube Pinheirosi, on the other Parque do Povoi, and a few minutes away Avenida Cidade Jardimi, Shopping Iguatemii, the Jockeyi and the Faria Limai axis. It is a stretch that combines two things that are usually mutually exclusive in São Paulo — the quiet of a through-traffic-free street and immediate access to the city’s economic center —, and that is why it concentrates one of the highest densities of high-end real estate in the municipality.