Camboriú

History

Camboriú is among the oldest residential addresses still in circulation on this stretch of Rua Harmonia. The city’s tax register lists plot 1010 with condominium use and 900 m² of land, and the 2007 municipal aerial survey already shows the tower standing, at 39.6 m in height — meaning the building predates the wave of buildings that now surrounds it, approved from the mid-2000s onward. The condominium has held its own company registration (CNPJ) since January 1987. The design authorship, development and construction company are not documented in a reliable public source and are therefore not attributed here. Market records place the opening in 1975.

• Trivia: the plot is one of the narrow, deep ones — about 15 m of frontage for almost 60 m of depth — and the tower occupies only 276 m² of footprint, a little under a third of the plot’s 900 m². The rest is setback, and that is where the distance between Camboriú and the neighbours that rose later comes from. Today the same plot sits in ZEU, the axis zone that the 2016 law opened up precisely to densify the streets near the metro: what exists there is less dense than what today’s city would allow to be built.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single tower, set in the middle of a long plot, with the floor footprint measured at 276 m² and a height of 39.6 m in the municipal survey. The architectural authorship is not publicly documented and is not attributed here. What the building declares to the street is the generation it belongs to: a compact volume, a modest slab repeated upward, and the spare land that the new buildings on the same block, raised on plots of the same size with far more units, cannot reproduce.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: single tower.
• Floor areas: 120 m² on the standard floor, with 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. Listings in circulation also record units of 123 to 124 m² and a 246 m² penthouse.
• Parking spaces: 1 on the standard floor.
• Structural highlights: a narrow, deep 900 m² plot, with about 15 m of frontage on Rua Harmonia; tower footprint of 276 m², less than a third of the plot; measured height of 39.6 m.
• Registry and parameters: single tower · plot of 900 m² · frontage of about 15 m · floor footprint 276 m² · measured height 39.6 m · 3 bedrooms · 3 bathrooms · 1 parking space · private areas of 120 m² on the standard floor, up to 246 m² on the penthouse · registry jurisdiction 10º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi · zoning ZEU (Lei 16.402/2016).

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Vila Madalena: the address

Rua Harmonia is one of the streets that gave Vila Madalenai its name before the neighbourhood became a destination: it begins residential, touches the bar and gallery trade and runs down to Sumarezinhoi — which is, incidentally, the neighbourhood the postal service assigns to this block’s postcode, although the market and the tax authority itself register the address as Vila Madalena. The stretch at number 1010 is the one that changed the most: over the last twenty years almost all the neighbouring plots were re-approved and rebuilt, and the street gained new towers of similar scale. The metro at Estação Vila Madalenai serves the block; by car, Avenida Sumaréi, Avenida Rebouçasi and Marginal Pinheirosi are minutes away. It is an address with real street life — bakery, market, school and bar within the same walk — with the tree cover that Vila Madalenai preserved while going vertical.