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The ground floor (today: mezzanine floor] featured the foyer, flanked by the porter's lodge and the telegraph office, as well as the roofed Grand Courtyard with the grand staircases. The northern wing contained lecture rooms and laboratory depots of geodesic, hydraulic engineering and bridge-building, the southern wing the staff rooms of engineering and mechanical engineering and laboratory depots. The ground floor of the western wing contained rooms used by the Benevolent Society and the university club. The music rehearsal room, the "club room", a lecture hall and staff rooms were contained here. The first storey is the most ornately designed part of the building. The imposing Assembly Hall overlooking the Danube had been the most important room of the Campus till World War II: opening ceremonies of the new academic year, diploma ceremonies and other festivals are held here. Its northern side still contains the Council Hall and the ornate

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rooms of the rectorate. Comprising two levels and roofed with a three-centred arch, staying strutting R-C barrel-vault the galleried Assembly Hall featured a representative design which fell victim to World War II and subsequent remodelling. Its roles have been mainly taken over by the present-day Aula. Besides administrative functions, the first storey contained imposing drawing rooms, and now houses the Faculty of Engineering in its northern wing and that of Mechanics in the southern one.

The second storey was primarily built for the Faculty of Architecture, but the students' botanical laboratory was also housed here. Each of the four corner projections contained departments. The connecting wings included the large drawing rooms for each grade, as well as the laboratory depots and minor lecture-halls. The southern corridor of the western wing was originally a closed one, where the "Microscope" and “Students' microscope room" were contained in association with the Zoological Collection. The northern corridor (today: No. 4) of the wing, however, span as far as the facade towards the Library, permitting the opening up of K250 lecture hall from the rear.