Torre KOI
Owner Internacional de Inversiones
Monterrey, Mexico Thornton Tomasetti provided structural design, through design development, for a 69-story tower that, when completed, will be Mexico’s tallest. Stark+Ortiz is serving as the local engineer for the 917-foot-tall building. The mixed-use tower houses offices, nine levels of parking, and luxury apartments, which will offer panoramic views of the Cerro de la Silla, Sierra Madre and Cerro de las Mitras mountains.
Completion Date 2017 Number of Stories 69 Height 279.5 m / 917 ft Sustainability LEED Silver
Christopher Crilly / Thornton Tomasetti
Courtesy Internacional de Inversiones
The structural system consists of post-tensioned concrete flat slabs supported by concrete columns and a concrete shear-wall core with post-tensioned concrete waffle slabs at the garage levels. The core’s high aspect ratio posed a significant challenge for meeting wind acceleration limits. Full-story concrete belt walls at Levels 21 and 61 link the tower columns to the shear-wall core to resist lateral loads and enhance stiffness, minimizing perceptible accelerations due to wind loads.
Architect VFO Arquitectos
Thornton Tomasetti – Tall and Supertall
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