Fascino Jardins

History

The Fascino is the work of SKRi, a developer that concentrated much of its 1990s and 2000s output in São Paulo on a sequence of Italian-named buildings — Palazzo Merano, Positano, Atrium VII, Palazzo Ducalei, the latter a few hundred metres away, on the same Rua Peixoto Gomide. The project began in 2001 and the building was completed in 2006: the condominium was established in December of that year. The scale of the units explains the ambition of the development — four bedrooms, five parking spaces and sizes reaching 578 m² on an already consolidated street in Jardinsi, where fitting a new building of this proportion required a plot that had almost stopped existing.

• Concept: house-scale floor area in a single tower at a Jardins address — spacious floor plans with terrace, four bedrooms and five parking spaces per unit.
• Curiosities: the Fascino is one of fifteen projects chosen for the monograph Editora Monolito published on SKR’s thirty years, alongside works by Isay Weinfeld, Marcio Kogan and Angelo Bucci — rare company for a residential building that never made a fuss of itself.

Architecture and aesthetics

Single tower, built on a plot on a residential street in Jardins. The units were designed around the social area: four rooms, with the living and dining rooms opening onto a large terrace, and the master suite with a walk-in closet and private terrace. The project’s authorship appears credited to Aflalo Gasperinii in SKR’s thirty-year monograph — the only public source that records it; since there is no independent second confirmation, the credit is not entered into this record.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 single tower. The number of storeys and units is not documented in any public source and is not attributed here.
• Sizes: 380 m² in the standard floor plan, reaching 578 m² in the larger units; 4 bedrooms, and unit listings record 4 to 5 suites depending on the floor plan.
• Parking: 5 per unit.
• Structural highlights: four-room social area with living and dining rooms opening onto a large terrace; master suite with walk-in closet and private terrace.
• Registry and parameters: 1 tower · project started in 2001 · construction completed in 2006 · condominium established in December 2006 · units from 380 to 578 m² · 4 bedrooms · 5 parking spaces · registry authority 13º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi.

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Jardim Paulista: the address

Jardim Paulistai is the neighbourhood where São Paulo learned to live well and never unlearned it. Rua Peixoto Gomide crosses the residential heart of Jardinsi — the same block where the shop windows of Rua Oscar Freirei, the galleries and the tables that gave the neighbourhood its name are found — and keeps, on its inner blocks, a quiet that proximity to Avenida Paulistai does not contradict. It is a region that does not depend on novelty: the street grid, the street-level retail and the tree cover have been consolidated for decades, and very little land is left for new development.