276 studios, one block from the beach — Eduardo Coutinho's 2002 documentary made it canonical.
About the building
Edifício Master in brief.
Edifício Master sits on Rua Domingos Ferreira 125, one block from Praia de Copacabana. The building runs 12 floors with 23 apartments per floor — 276 studio units in total, housing roughly 500 residents — making it one of the densest single-address residential populations in the South Zone.
Studio plates are compact (around 38 m²) and trade as a high-turnover entry-price asset in Copacabana, with steady tenant demand from young professionals, students, and short-term workers. The building is not a luxury asset on plate size or finish; it is included in this directory because it sits at one of Rio's most-cited residential addresses for a specific reason: cinema.
AddressRua Domingos Ferreira 125, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro — 22050-012
Distance to
What's around it.
Walk and drive times to the things that decide where you live in Rio — beach,
metro, airports, neighborhood anchors.
Praia de Copacabana3 min walk · one block
Metrô Siqueira Campos (L1)9 min walk
Santos Dumont Airport16 min by car
Galeão (GIG)32 min by car
Av. Nossa Sra. de Copacabana (botecos)2 min walk
Forte de Copacabana14 min walk
On the map
Edifício Master located.
Rua Domingos Ferreira 125, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro — 22050-012
Constructed in 1957, the building carries a 12-floor / 23-per-floor format — a relic of mid-century Copacabana density planning, optimised for studios oriented toward the orla side of the block.
Vista de Copacabana · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
In 2002, director Eduardo Coutinho and his crew spent three weeks inside the building, interviewing 37 of its residents. The resulting documentary, 'Edifício Master,' premiered at the Festival de Gramado in August 2002 and won that festival's best-documentary award, the São Paulo International Film Festival's best documentary, and the APCA prize in 2003. The film is one of the most-cited Brazilian documentaries of the 2000s and remains the building's primary cultural footprint.
Obras na praia de Copacabana · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Carioca press has noted the building's earlier reputation in the late twentieth century; ownership and condominium administration since have shifted the resident mix substantially, and the building is referenced today through the documentary rather than the older context.
Obras na praia de Copacabana 2 · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Who's lived here
Notable residents.
Where named individuals declined attribution, we describe the owner profile.
No address-level identification of current residents.
37 interviewed residents (2002)
The full lineup of Coutinho's subjects has been studied as a record of Copacabana's social cross-section at the turn of the 2000s — domestic workers, retirees, sex workers, artists, evangelical pastors, students. Not a Who's-Who list, deliberately.
Available now
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