Duetto Jardins

History

Duetto Jardins was born from a short, well-dated process. The new-building permit was issued on 29 June 2004, to Saint Hilaire Incorporação SPE S/A, with Roberto Candussoi as the project’s author and Plano & Planoi as the firm responsible for construction; the execution permit followed on 30 December of the same year, and the tower was delivered in 2007. Municipal records register 5,968.03 square metres of built area on a plot of 881.03 square metres — a high density for the block, resolved through height because the plot is nearly square and did not allow for spreading out.

• Concept: vertically developing an almost-square plot of under nine hundred square metres without turning it into a corridor building — thirty-two units across nineteen floors, few doors per landing.
• Curiosities: the plot declared in the permit, 881.03 m², matches the 882 m² in the current tax record — the plot has never been merged or subdivided since approval. And the municipal aerial survey still records on the plot the earlier low-rise structures, none above ten and a half metres: the Duetto is, among the four corners of this block, the building that arrived last.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single nineteen-storey block on a tax lot of approximately 31 by 33 metres — nearly a perfect square, which is rare in Jardinsi subdivisions and defines the design approach: instead of the narrow, deep slab typical of neighbours on the same street, a tower with a compact floor plan and centred placement. The design is by Roberto Candussoi, whose office has operated in São Paulo since 1976 with a strong output of residential buildings; construction was handled by Plano & Planoi. The division of 5,968 square metres built across thirty-two units gives the measure of the programme: apartments of contained floor area for the neighbourhood’s standard, with a two-storey penthouse at the top.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 block, 19 floors, 32 units (per the municipal approval permit).
• Sizes: 114 to 132 m² in the floor plans in circulation, with 2 bedrooms. Records register one 178 m² penthouse of private area, with three bedrooms — two suites and a family room on the second floor.
• Parking: 2 in the standard floor plan.
• Structural highlights: 882 m² tax lot (881.03 m² in the permit), approximately 31.3 × 33.4 m; 5,968.03 m² of approved built area.
• Registry and parameters: 882 m² plot · tax lot approx. 31.3 × 33.4 m · 1 block · 19 floors · 32 units · 2 bedrooms and 2 parking spaces in the standard floor plan · built area 5,968.03 m² · approval 29/06/2004 · execution 30/12/2004 · delivery 2007 · registered use “Condominium” · registry jurisdiction 4º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi · ZM zoning (Law 16.402/2016).

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Jardim Paulista: the address

Rua Saint Hilaire is one of the short streets stitching together Jardim Paulistai between Alameda Joaquim Eugênio de Lima and Rua José Maria Lisboa — under two hundred metres of residential street in a pocket the big city bypasses without crossing. It is the stretch of the neighbourhood descending from Avenida Paulistai toward Ibirapuerai, with Avenida Brigadeiro Luís Antônioi on one side and Alameda Joaquim Eugênio de Lima on the other, both a block away: hospital, school and restaurant within walking distance, and two exit routes without living on either of them. It is the Jardim Paulistai for those who want the address without the shopfront — a few minutes from the commercial Jardinsi, but on a street no one passes through by chance.