Armuth Miklós - Lőrinczi Zsuzsa (szerk.): A Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem Történeti Campusa (Budapest, 2023)
A Kazánház és a kémény - The Boiler-House and the chimney Gy. Balogh Ágnes
202 z o In 1971-1972, when no boilerrooms were needed anymore, new proposals to utilize the building included a variety of functions such as a gym hall, workshops divided by roofs, depots as well as a construction area. At last in 1974-1975 the Laboratory of Thermal Technics was realised. To do so, the original R-C slab above the basement had to be replaced, the wooden panellings of the légifotó. 1930-as évek I aerial photo, CCA. 1930 attic-level pulled down and replaced with an aluminium suspended ceiling. Simultaneously, the two-level measuring rooms were furnished in the central hall of the building along the eastern wall. The boiler-room space included the engine hall which in turn housed a Polish made Zemak gas-fired superheating steamboiler for educational purposes after the demolition of the old boilers. The steam generated here was conveyed via the newly constructed underground steam-system to the steam turbine installed in D hall (Des) building. The steam turbine designed next to the Boiler-House was realised in 1979, when the stairway and the loading ramp was also built outside the western facade. All the buildings of the university were surveyed in 1976, 1984, 1993 and 2004 documenting their current conditions. Originally designed as an integral space, the cellar had already been cut up into numerous small rooms by the time of these surveys, which was necessitated by the groundwork of the boiler-rooms posteriorly built in. The former coal depot on the ground-floor had also been disintegrated to contain workshops, social areas and instrument rooms. The upper floor of the northern wing still had residential functions as late as in 1993 with a central terrace built in. The southern annex then housed a joiner's shop. As of 2004, the building was partly used as a laboratory (hall space) by the Department of Energetic Engines, partly by the Department of Mechanical Technology (which had its rooms in the part facing Bertalan Lajos Street). Other parts of the building were used as caloric centres. The ground floor and the first storey of the northern wing featured a publishing house and a printing press. The built-in terrace and the cinders lift were demolished on the northern side and thus the building was restored to its original volume from this direction. An iron spiral stairway transferred here from another building of the university was built beside the northern facade of the building to allowaccess to the terrace. In 1998 a car park above the underground coal depot was designed. The R-C roofing was reinforced and the shafts of the depot were roofed in. However, the project itself was postponed and only realized after 2005. As a result of reconstruction works in the past few years, the Boiler-House has been gradually restored to its original harmonious design following demolition of annexes built in the mean time. However, the reconstruction of the east- and west-facing main facades still rermains a wishful project for the future.
