H2o Santa Fe building, Residential skyscraper in Santa Fe district, Mexico City.
The H2O Santa Fe is a 140-metre residential tower at Avenida Santa Fe 449, with 33 floors and a floor-to-ceiling height of 4 metres. Its structure of reinforced concrete, aluminium and glass holds 174 apartments, and architect Daniel Kolic placed 40 seismic dampers and 85 steel piles driven 41 metres deep into the ground.
The building rose between 2004 and 2007 on what was once a landfill site. This conversion marked a turning point for Santa Fe, shifting from an industrial area to a modern residential neighborhood.
The tower's name, H2O, refers to water, and its 174 apartments are marketed as "intelligent" homes: lighting is run by a B3 control system, the same used in the Torre Mayor and the World Trade Center México. The site on Avenida Santa Fe 449 was previously a garbage dump, cleared before construction.
The building has four levels of underground parking for residents and multiple elevators to reach upper floors easily. The infrastructure is designed to keep daily operations comfortable and efficient.
The building was engineered with special systems to withstand earthquakes, given its location in a seismically active region. Its design uses underground supports and specialized technology to keep the structure stable during strong tremors.
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