Armuth Miklós - Lőrinczi Zsuzsa (szerk.): A Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem Történeti Campusa (Budapest, 2023)
A Műszaki Mechanika és Mezőgazdasági Géplaboratórium épülete - The Building of the Applied and Agricultural Mechanics Laboratory Gy. Balogh Ágnes
THE BUILDING OF THE APPLIED AND AGRICULTURAL MECHANICS LABORATORY Győző Czigler had originally designed a single building to be shared by the Departments of Applied Mechanics, Agricultural Mechanics and MechanicalTechnology, although the specialties of the practical training of mechanical engineers would have preferably required several minor buildings. This is how the building home to the Applied and Agricultural Mechanics was realised as a free-standing independent structure (referred to as MM-MG building based on the initials of the Hungarian names) after designs by Samu Pecz, a lecturer of the Budapest Technical University between 1906and 1909. The MM-MG Building was originally erected for the purposes of the Departments of Applied and Agricultural Mechanics (belonging to the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering FŐHOMLOKZAT, ENGEDÉLYEZÉSI TERV I MAIN ELEVATION, PERMIT PLAN, 1905 then) and the Concrete and Reinforced Concrete Construction Laboratory (part of the Engineering Faculty). It still houses the Department and Laboratory of Applied Mechanics as well as the Department of Machine and Product Design, which is an off-spring of the Agricultural Mechanics Department (this latter was merged with the Department of Machine Parts in two stages). As the Concrete and Reinforced Concrete Construction Laboratory later on evolved into an independent department, it is currently named the Department of Construction Materials and Technologies. This unit recently moved into the Central Building, leaving only its laboratories in the northern wing and in the extension next to the tower. The other part of the northern wing now houses the laboratory of the Department of Railway Vehicles and Vehicle Systems Analysis (formerly that of Railway Vehicles, Airplanes and Ships). The varied forms of the irregular U-plan building are representative, and much like those of a castle. Its facade is enhanced by pitched hip-roof forms, gabled roofs with various angles of inclination and gables. The designer found the balance between the various building forms by erecting a tower between the parts topped with deck-roofs and tall roofs.
