
Casa del Agua is an industrial development custom-designed for the brand, integrating architecture, engineering, technology, sustainability, and design into a production system open to public experience. The project brings together a production center, warehouse, cisterns, raw material storage, machinery and processing areas, laboratory, offices, showroom, retail and restaurant space, and a water museum.
Designed for the collection, storage, purification, and bottling of rainwater, the building makes visible the water cycle that lies at the core of the brand. Rainwater is collected through its sloped roofs, directed into storage systems, filtered, purified, and ultimately bottled. Two large cisterns hold nearly 900 cubic meters of water, making the subsoil the project’s operational core.
The project responds to a complex technical condition: a site composed of fill material with low bearing capacity, intended to support extraordinary loads from the storage of water, glass, machinery, and bottled product. To address this, a deep foundation system was developed using large-diameter piles, some more than thirty meters deep, capable of supporting the weight of both the infrastructure and the industrial operation.
Exposed concrete, hollow concrete block, steel, and glass define an industrial aesthetic in which structure, façade, and finish become part of a single architectural language. The sloped roofs direct water toward a central joint that becomes a channel and culminates in a monumental concrete gargoyle, conceived as both a fountain and an acoustic event during rainfall.
Architecture: Bernardo Quinzaños
Collaborators: Santiago Vélez, Begoña Manzano, Andrés Suárez, Juan Oltra, Carlos Molina, Cristian Nieves, Xavier Ramirez
Client: Invertierra, Uno Punto Uno
Model Photography: Arturo Arrieta