Saint Barthélemy

History

Designed by Triptyque Architecturei, a French-Brazilian practice founded in 2000 with offices in São Paulo and Paris, Saint Barthélemy is a low-unit-count building on one of the most discreet streets in Vila Nova Conceiçãoi. The common areas were decorated by João Armentanoi, and construction was handled by Lock Engenhariai. The design approach is the opposite of the repeated-layout building: instead of one plan multiplied across twenty floors, a handful of flats ranging from under a hundred to over seven hundred square metres, each with its own solution. It is a recent building, and the market already advertises it as ready to move into; public sources, however, disagree on the exact completion year — the dates in circulation range from 2022 to 2025 — and, for that reason, it is not fixed here.

• Concept: exclusive floor plans per unit in a low-rise building — the whole building fits within the number of families found on a single floor of a conventional tower.
• Curiosities: the two ends of the building are the portrait of the design approach. At the bottom, a 166 m² garden flat with a private pool and garden opening onto the ground floor; at the top, a 720 m² duplex penthouse with four en-suites, a pool, gourmet area and a fire pit on the upper floor, served by seven parking spaces — more spaces than many entire buildings on the same street.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single, low tower, one flat per floor. The language is contemporary, consistent with Triptyque Architecturei‘s body of work — architecture that works the meeting point between structure and vegetation and uses concrete, timber and garden as design material. With only one unit per floor, the flat occupies the whole slab: no shared walls, no ventilation shaft, and balconies on more than one side. The common-area interior design is by João Armentanoi.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower, 5 floors, 1 flat per floor.
• Sizes: five distinct layouts in circulation, from 98 m² to 720 m² — 98 m² (2 bedrooms, 1 en-suite), 131 m² (3 en-suites, with balcony), 166 m² garden flat (2 en-suites, private pool and garden), 259 m² duplex penthouse (2 en-suites) and 720 m² duplex penthouse (4 en-suites).
• Parking: 3 in the standard layouts; 7 in the larger penthouse, which also has a private storage room.
• Structural highlights: one flat per floor, floor plan designed unit by unit, private pools in the garden flat and the penthouse.
• Registry and parameters: 1 tower · 5 floors · 1 flat per floor · 1 to 4 en-suites · 3 to 7 parking spaces · private areas from 98 m² to 720 m².

Leisure and facilities

• Heated pool
• Gym

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Vila Nova Conceição: the address

Vila Nova Conceiçãoi is the neighbourhood São Paulo treats as a reserve: a handful of blocks between Parque Ibirapuerai and the Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Limai axis, with short, tree-lined streets with no through traffic from non-residents. Rua Monte Aprazível is one of these — residential from end to end, in the low-numbered stretch, a walk from the park and a few minutes from the tables, bakeries and shops that made the neighbourhood’s name. It is one of the most expensive square metres in the country, and the reason is arithmetic: the perimeter is small, there is almost no free plot, and the low height limit stops supply from growing sideways or upwards.