New emergency staircase at Santo Ángel de la Guarda´s school in Seville

Until now, the high school pavilion had just a single staircase to evacuate two floors of classrooms, with 350 students using it simultaneously at entry and exit hours.

Besides, the main access to the school is on the other side of the building, so that the students’ entrance into the high school classroom interfered with other internal scholar uses. The new staircase provides with direct entry to the classrooms and a second evacuation exit.

This new staircase can be used under adverse weather condition,s satisfying at the same time the demands of ventilation, lighting, etc., required by fire regulations.

The structure is made of steel, facilitating prefabrication and its subsequent assembly. As a  coating, cellular polycarbonate panels have been used, arranged in flakes that give the whole its iconic image. It seems a translucent, light and air-permeable ICEBERG, coupled with the brick construction. It’s a new “peripheral device” that optimizes circulation through the main building.

Previous dark corridors are now luminous galleries, pure white and clear light interior distribution spaces represent the reference to follow to easily reach the exit.