Hélio 454

History

By RFMi, in partnership with Koema and Canvas, with architecture by AO (Architecture Office)i, interiors by João Armentanoi and landscaping by Cardimi, Hélio 454 is an ultra-exclusive boutique retrofit in Vila Nova Conceiçãoi, anchored on a tree-lined stretch next to Praça Pereira Coutinhoi. There are just eight units, one per floor: a deliberately small fleet, cut for very few owners.

• Concept: the boutique retrofit of very few units, with minimalist common areas designed by João Armentanoi.
• Trivia: the architecture firm AOi is described by sources as the former Triptyquei.

Architecture and aesthetics

The design is a self-supporting concrete grid that exposes solids and voids and takes on vegetation in the voids themselves: almost 70% of the private area is accessible terrace, running the full perimeter of the units, and the slab was designed to turn the view towards the densest green patch nearby and to accommodate planters. The same treatment continues down to the ground floor, where the active façade gives the pavement back a stretch of commerce and work — two volumes, two entrances: one for the loft, another for the offices. There are eight units and none repeats: a loft, a garden flat with two terraces (one uncovered, one pergola-covered), five standard floors and a duplex crowning the top; on the mezzanine, a terrace with pool. Inside, timber ceilings, fibreglass planters and a neutral palette support the idea stated by the firm — that of a suspended house. Architecture by AO (Architects Office)i, interiors by João Armentanoi and landscaping by Cardimi.

Aesthetics and scarcity

• Aesthetics: contemporary and minimalist.

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: single tower, 8 to 10 storeys, one per floor, just 8 units (ultra-exclusive boutique).
• Sizes: standard layout of 253 to 258 m² (3 suites, 3 parking spaces); duplex penthouse of 409 to 491 m² (3 suites, 4 parking spaces).
• Parking: 3 spaces in the standard layout, 4 in the penthouse.
• Structural highlights: gardens in lightweight metal structure and minimalist common areas (João Armentano).
• Registry and parameters: private areas of 253 to 258 m² (standard) and 409 to 491 m² (duplex penthouse) · registry jurisdiction 14th São Paulo Property Registryi · zoning ZM · buildable ratio 2x · height limit 28 m.

Leisure and facilities

• Pool
• Gym
• Function room
• Gourmet balcony with barbecue

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Vila Nova Conceição: the address

Avenida Hélio Pellegrinoi is newer than the neighbourhood it crosses: it was opened over the bed of the Córrego Uberaba, one of the streams that residents of Vila Nova Conceiçãoi could still hear running until the 1950s and which the city’s major road works buried from the following decade onward. Hence the unusual layout for a residential side street — a tree-lined central median, wide pavements, avenue-scale proportions on a low scale. Number 454 sits on the most shaded and quiet stretch of that strip, with Colégio Mobilei under two hundred metres away and the Tuesday market a little over two hundred, already heading towards Avenida Santo Amaroi — which is also the fast way out of the address towards Itaim Bibii and the JKi axis.