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Hotel Via Vallejo, Mexico City
Project description
This building will be housing two different Marriot hotels, the Courtyard and the Fairfield. The whole building will be constructed on top of a large new mall called Via Vallejo, located in the centre of Mexico City.
The 10-floor building will has been designed to not only withstand the effects of the severe earthquakes in Mexico City, but also to ensure the serviceability of the hotel during and after the seismic event. To do this, the engineers have chosen to use seismic isolation as a protective strategy.
mageba scope
To improve the seismic response of the building, the engineers in charge of the structural design performed complex dynamic analysis, which confirmed that the best strategy was to seismically isolate the hotel from the large mall. Therefore, it was decided that 18 mageba LASTO-LRB (Lead Rubber Bearings) will be supporting the entire hotel. These devices will isolate the structure, which is rather flexible, from the much stiffer mall’s structure.
This strategy has been confirmed after extensive three-dimensional dynamic analysis of the structure seismic response.
3D-View of one of the LASTO-LRB (seismic isolators) to be installed in the building
Three-dimensional model of the hotel including the mageba LASTO-LRB supporting the hotel
Key Data
Products: | LASTO-LRB Lead Rubber Bearings (seismic isolators) |
Installation: | 2014-2015 |
City: | Mexico City |
Structure: | Commercial and Lodging Building |
Client: | Gallegos Consultores |
Contractor: | SIESA |
