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
1 6 8 Next to it a 23-metre water-tower was erected along with a large experimental engine hall, above which there was a terrace to try out the efficiency of wind-engines on a large anchored iron scaffolding that was simultaneously used to pump up water from the lower water-tank into the upper one." Although the designs and budgets forthe MM-MG building had already been made in 1905, construction was delayed till the autumn of 1906. The 1:100 floor-plans date from November and December, 1905. Marked in red, the drawings show the changes Pecz made to the original concept: the first draft included a more prominent central projection and a much more imposing entrance, in the axis of the main entrance on the riverside there would have been a single-flight staircase leading upstairs (here the ground floor) from the ground floor (which Pecz here referred to as the basement), whilst the corridors would have opened from an octagonal foyer behind it. A segmented cupola would have topped the foyer upstairs, whilst the double-height room above the entrance was to have a Romanesque cross-vault. The reason why a different system of symbols was used as compared to the one applied today is that the lower level would have been appr. 1 meter lower than the floor-level of the entrance [and thus the plane of the waterfront terrain). Revising the designs had disadvantageously affected the entrance to the courtyard (which is the main access route today) rendering it asymmetrical and subordinated. The changes made in the designs then involved primarily an essential modification of the roof form above the entrance to the courtyard: above the projection with more prominent terraces covered with fibre cement were built to flank the hipped roof on both sides. The same scale (1:100) designs of the facades KIH, JÓZSEF MŰEGYETEM ÉPITKEZÉSE, J-K Mrtazft. MŰSZAKI MECHANIKAI ÉsMEZQGAZDASAGI GEPLAEJDRATORIUM. M.XHLLap. METSZET A FŐBEJÁRATON ÁT, ENGEDÉLYEZÉSI TERV, 1905 CROSS SECTION THROUGH THE MAIN ENTRANCE. PERMIT PLAN. 1905 and sections were finalised in October and November 1905. Further modifications were made to change the number of openings and in many cases their designs too. The revised design of the entrance was finished in March 1906. Signed both by Pecz and Hauszmann, the statistic calculations for the width of the walls were approved on August 6th. September 1906 saw the completion of the foundation designs, whilst November the 1:40 detail designs of the facades including the ceramic panels.
