Soul Jardins

History

Soul Jardins is by Constraci, a developer and builder that concentrates much of its residential portfolio in the Jardim Paulistai–Ibirapuera–Vila Mariana axis and which also signs, in the same neighbourhood, Jade Jardim Paulistai. The developer sold the building with a short line — “a new icon in Jardins, between Oscar Freire and Lorena” — and a programme that does not depend on common areas: instead of spreading square metres across the ground floor, Constrac concentrated everything inside the units. The building reached fine finishing in the second half of 2016.

• Concept: one flat per floor on a narrow plot in Jardinsi, with the investment placed in the unit’s infrastructure — automation, air conditioning and acoustic insulation delivered by the builder — rather than in leisure square metres.
• Curiosities: the building has three sizes and no repeated floor plan at either end. Flat 21, at the base, measures 264 m²; from 31 to 171 they all measure 205 m²; and 191, at the top, is a 346 m² duplex. Each flat received its own individual storage unit in the basement — and acoustic insulation between floors was carried out in the living rooms and bedrooms, not only in the service slabs.

Architecture and aesthetics

Designed by JNA Arquitetosi, with landscaping by Alex Hanazakii and interiors by Márcia Kalili — the same trio of signatures that Constraci repeated at Jade Jardim Paulistai, a few blocks away. A single tower, one flat per floor, with the balcony fully integrated with the living room and a glass balustrade, so the gourmet terrace works as a permanent extension of the living room rather than an attached balcony. The building was delivered with air-conditioning infrastructure in the living room and bedrooms and automation infrastructure installed by the builder itself.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower, 1 flat per floor. The units are numbered by floor: flat 21, flats 31 to 171 and the duplex 191, at the top.
• Floor sizes: 205 m² on the standard floor, with 3 en-suite bedrooms; 264 m² in flat 21; and 346 m² in the duplex penthouse, with 4 en-suite bedrooms. All units come with basement storage.
• Parking: 4 in the standard flat; 6 in the duplex penthouse.
• Structural highlights: gourmet terrace integrated with the living room, glass balcony balustrade, air-conditioning infrastructure in the living room and bedrooms, automation infrastructure delivered by the builder, acoustic insulation between floors in the living rooms and bedrooms, individual basement storage for each flat.

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Jardim Paulista: the address

Rua Caçapava is a short side street of Jardim Paulistai, between Alameda Lorena and Alameda Casa Branca, and No. 28 sits on its initial stretch — metres from Avenida Nove de Julhoi, the fast route to Avenida Paulistai in one direction and to Ibirapuera Parki in the other, without the avenue’s noise reaching the street. It is the logic that has sustained the price of this quarter for decades: a residential street with local traffic, with a structural avenue one block away. On foot, Rua Oscar Freirei, Jardim Pamplona Shoppingi and the dining of Jardinsi — Fasano, Figueira Rubayat, D.O.M. — are all within walking distance, with Club Athletico Paulistanoi a few minutes away by car.