Casa Arbo

History

Meta Incorporadorai is a boutique developer: it selects few plots and carries, as baggage, the more than twenty-five years of Souza Lima Construtorai, a company from the same group and responsible for all its works. Casa Arbo was born from a reading of demand — families from Itaim Bibii and Vila Olímpiai who wanted a large apartment, signature architecture and proximity to good schools, and could not find a new product in the neighbourhood. They could not find it because there wasn’t one: according to the trade press, this is the first launch of its kind in Jardim Guedala in twenty-five years.

The name translates the project’s thesis — arbo, tree. The development was registered in September 2022 and construction began the following year.

• Concept: the nature of the architecture — natural light and integration with greenery as a design guideline, and a structure designed to give each resident floor-plan flexibility.
• Trivia: two of the ten units are garden units, of 515 and 521 m², with four suites and a private garden. The structural project was designed to allow each resident to reorganise the interior spaces according to their needs — an engineering decision, not a decorating one.

Architecture and aesthetics

The project is by Perkins&Willi, a global office based in Pinheirosi with strong technical tradition, and the team itself sums up the approach: contemporary and timeless, with natural light and integration with greenery in service of quality of life, and a play of volumes between concrete and timber — cold and warm materials in dialogue — seeking elegance and permanence. The residences are elevated and receive exclusive garden units; the façade works this contrast of materiality instead of resorting to ornament. The landscaping is by Cardim Arquiteturai, specialised in native Atlantic Forest vegetation, and the interior design is signed by Silvia Rosenthali and Andrea Barrosoi.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 10 elevated residences, with exclusive garden units.
• Floor areas: from 400 to 655 m². The standard floor plan has 400 m² with 4 suites; the two garden units have 521 and 515 m², over two levels, with 4 suites and a private garden.
• Parking spaces: 4 to 5 spaces set per unit, with a private bicycle storage box.
• Structural highlights: structural project designed to give the units floor-plan flexibility · electric power generator · electric-car charger.
• Registry and parameters: development registered under R.02 of title deed 272.401, on 20/09/2022, at the 18º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi · 10 units · 4 suites · 4 to 5 parking spaces · private areas of 400 to 655 m² · zoning ZM, mixed zone. The developer does not disclose the plot area; the tax register lists 700 m² for the lot at nº 662.

Leisure and facilities

• Pool with solarium
• Fitness space
• Wellness space
• Gourmet space
• Children’s playroom
• Meeting room
• Delivery room
• Private bicycle storage box

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Jardim Guedala: the address

Two names for the same address

The postal service registers this stretch as Vila Progredior — a registry name almost no one uses. The market, the residents and those searching here say Jardim Guedala. This entry adopts the name in common use: it is by this name that people search, advertise and buy.

Rua José Jannarelli is the seam between Jardim Guedalai and Vila Progredior — the postcode says Vila Progredior, the market and the developer say Jardim Guedala, and both describe the same stretch of tree-lined street, small in scale, with neighbourhood shops. It is a walking-convenience address, a rare thing in this part of the city: the developer sums up the argument in the concept of “doing everything in fifteen minutes,” with a pharmacy, a market, a butcher’s, a greengrocer and a square within a short radius.

The Fragata collection gathers in the neighbourhood The Falls Hausi, Vila Emílio Peduttii, Vista Cyrela by Armani Casai, 188 Itaverai and Alta Vista Cidade Jardimi — a short portfolio, because Jardim Guedalai hardly produces any launches. Around it, the schools that drive the region’s demand (Miguel de Cervantes, Porto Seguroi, Santo Américo, Avenues), Hospital Israelita Albert Einsteini and Hospital São Luizi, Clube Paineiras do Morumbii and Parque Alfredo Volpii, besides Shopping Cidade Jardimi and Shopping JK Iguatemii. Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Limai is a few kilometres away — close enough for work, far enough for silence.