Las Torres del Poeta is a building project consisting of 4 towers with a total of 106,431 square meters built, which makes it the largest building in the private sector in Bolivia. Also, two of its towers are the second and third tallest buildings in the country, the tallest having a height of 178 meters.

The towers were aptly named in commemoration of poets with great renown in history of Bolivia

– Torre «A»: Jaime Sáenz

– Torre «B»: Adela Zamudio

– Torre «C»: María Josefa Mujia

– Torre «D»: Franz Tamayo

Regarding structural behavior, it is important to understand that, in tall buildings, horizontal wind and seismic actions are the greatest stresses that the structure must resist.

The action of wind depends on the surfaces and shapes of the building, as well as its height and the urban environment where it is located. Seismic actions are more complex, since their value depends not only on the ground acceleration for a given return period, but also on the characteristics of the resistant structure, its mass, stiffness and damping, which determine the natural modes of vibration and the periods. Both loads are eminently random and, therefore, of a complex treatment in the study of structures.

Our work consisted of verifying the seismic-resistant capacity of the towers. The design we made allowed us to implement some improvements to the structure that, although inexpensive, resulted in a significant increase of this seismic-resistant capacity.