Reserva Trancoso

History

Reserva Trancoso is the Bahian chapter of Fasanoi‘s residential hospitality, the leisure arm of JHSFi. The project grew out of the same movement that took the brand to Praia do Frade, in Angra, and to the countryside, in Porto Feliz: turning a signature hotel into the heart of a residential development, so that the resident buys the house and inherits the structure and service of the hotel operation. The starting point was Praia de Itapororoca, one of the most secluded stretches of Trancoso — blue sky, warm and almost always calm waters, with natural pools revealed at low tide — where the Hotel Fasano Trancosoi opened 40 bungalows and a half-kilometre deck by the sea.

Around the hotel, the complex unfolded into residential sectors of different natures: the Estâncias, lot-based condominiums; and the Villas, ready-built houses of set size. The common denominator is access to Clube Fasano and to the hotel’s services — room service, housekeeping and concierge — for every unit, whether rented or bought.

• Concept: living inside a beach Fasano — the private house with the brand’s hotel service at the door, in one of the most desired destinations on the Brazilian coast.
• Trivia: the Hotel Fasano Trancosoi was voted by Condé Nast Traveler the world’s 5th best beach hotel. The Praia Trancoso restaurant operates under the shade of an almond tree on the sand of Itapororoca, and the 500-metre deck that runs along the entire front of the property houses a 50-metre adult pool.

Architecture and aesthetics

Reserva Trancoso’s language is the sophisticated rustic that Trancoso made its own, read through three authorships. The Hotel Fasano Trancosoi and part of the seasonal villas are designed by Isay Weinfeldi, known for a contemporary line that dialogues with nature — from the siting and design of each suite to the materials, with a piaçava-thatch roof that blends into the landscape and minimalist interiors punctuated by foraged pieces and native-wood furniture. The Villas Fasano, private houses of five or six suites on a scenic plateau, are by Bernardes Arquiteturai, Thiago Bernardes’s practice. And the villas of the Estâncias carry the signature of Gálvez & Mártoni. The gesture that unifies the whole is not a façade, but the low-density siting over preserved native forest, with the sea always at the end of the path.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Sectors and units: not a tower. It is a low-density residential complex organised into sectors — the Estâncias Fasano, the Itapororoca condominium closest to the Quadrado, with 23 lots and 6 villas; the Estâncias Reserva Trancoso Platô Sul, lot-based; and the Villas Fasano, ready-built houses —, all linked to the Hotel Fasano Trancosoi, with its 40 bungalows and 23 villas.
• Sizes: the Villas Fasano by Bernardes Arquiteturai have 792 m², with 5 or 6 suites; the villas by Gálvez & Mártoni, 493 m² and 4 suites. In the Estâncias, what is sold is the lot — the size of the house depends on each owner’s project.
• Parking: not stated by an official source per unit type.
• Structural highlights: frontage onto Praia de Itapororoca, with a 500-metre seafront deck; access for every unit to Clube Fasano and to the hotel service of Hotel Fasano Trancosoi (room service, housekeeping, concierge); spa, fitness centre, Racket Club with tennis and beach tennis courts, Kids Club, water sports, fat bikes and trails within the complex; a helipad on the development itself.
• Registry and parameters: development on the southern coast of Bahia, outside the scope of the São Paulo survey’s urban planning parameters. Registry jurisdiction not confirmed by any source — the field is left blank.

Leisure and facilities

• Clube Fasano, with hotel service extended to the residences
• 500-metre seafront deck, with a 50 m adult pool and a children’s pool
• Fasano Spa, in bungalows overlooking the garden
• Fitness centre and steam sauna
• Racket Club — tennis and beach tennis courts
• Kids Club
• Water sports (stand-up paddle and kayak) at Praia de Itapororoca
• Fat bikes and walking and mountain-bike trails within the complex
• Fasano Trancoso and Praia Trancoso restaurants
• Beach service
• Helipad

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Trancoso: the address

Trancosoi is a district of Porto Seguro, in the far south of Bahia, that became a byword for discreet luxury on the Brazilian coast. The old fishing village organised around the Quadrado — the grassy square with the little white church atop the cliff — has, over the last few decades, attracted a public seeking the sophistication of the rustic and the beauty of the natural. Praia de Itapororoca, where Reserva Trancoso stands, is one of the most secluded stretches of the district, protected by native forest. Access is via Porto Seguro or Ilhéus, and the region lives with the same tension found along the whole of the top-tier coastline: the more secluded the address, the further from the airport — and it is precisely that distance that preserves the quiet bought there.