Twice

History

The Twice occupies a 579 m² plot on Rua Atibaia, a few metres from the listed heritage stretch of Pacaembui. The 2007 municipal aerial photogrammetric survey still records only low-rise construction on the plot — none of it taller than seven metres; the building standing there today postdates that survey, and the two market databases that date the condominium converge on 2009. The design’s authorship is not publicly documented and, for that reason, is not attributed here.

• Concept: few, very large units on a small plot — four bedrooms and four parking spaces in almost 300 m², on a block where the rule is the house and the low-rise building.
• Curiosities: the plot is zoned ZEU, a band in which the city authorises height and density, and it borders directly onto Pacaembu’s ZER-1, where no building may be erected. It is one of the neighbourhood’s last positions where verticalisation was permitted — and the neighbourhood on the other side of the boundary is frozen by law.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single tower on a 579 m² plot. With floor plans of 278 to 290 m², practically the entire floor slab is apartment: there is no long corridor or internal shaft to distribute, and the plan can open onto both faces of the plot. It is the opposite logic to the building with many units — the same plot, divided into fewer parts. The design and interiors authorship is not documented in public sources and is not attributed.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: single tower.
• Floor areas: 278 to 290 m² across the plans in circulation, with 4 bedrooms.
• Parking spaces: 4.
• Structural differentiators: a 579 m² plot for floor plans of almost 300 m² — nearly the entire floor slab is private area.
• Registration and parameters: plot 579 m² · 1 tower · 4 bedrooms · 4 parking spaces · private areas from 278 to 290 m² · delivered 2009 · zoning ZEU · buildable potential 4x · unrestricted height limit.

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Pacaembu: the address

Pacaembui is a listed heritage residential neighbourhood: tree-lined streets, period houses, low density and a historic stadium in the middle. It is one of the few central areas of São Paulo where the landscape is protected by law — what exists there today is, to a large extent, what will exist tomorrow. Rua Atibaia runs along the edge of this layout, at the point where Pacaembu meets Perdizesi: on one side the listed heritage city, on the other the university and cultural neighbourhood, with Colégio FAAPi, street-level shops and the Feira do Pacaembu a few minutes away. Avenida Paulistai and Parque da Água Brancai are both a short drive away, in opposite directions — the rare position of being between two centres and inside neither.