Armuth Miklós - Lőrinczi Zsuzsa (szerk.): A Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem Történeti Campusa (Budapest, 2023)
A Géplaboratórium épülete - The Engines Laboratory Gy. Balogh Ágnes
206 o z m cr o < stone and ceramic ornamentation. As far as decoration and mass formation is concerned, this is the most restrained building Samu Pecz had ever designed. Unfortunately, just one photograph has come down to us documenting the original condition of the realised building which shows only some parts of it from afar, beneath the Bridge of Sighs. The Municipal Archives of Budapest treasure the original building permit drawings, the sections and elevations in 1:100 made in October, 1905 and the floor-plans in November. A whole series of building permit drawings approved in June 1906 has also sun/ived, on which Pecz marked the modifications made meanwhile in red on the floor-plans. These changes actually meant the revision of the eastern and western facades: the entrances of the engine hall were originally intended to open from the west, and the small west-side annex (petrol chamber] would have been housed on the eastern side. In November 1906 the facades and their details were designed in 1:40, this time based on the revised scheme. The foundation plan was approved by Pecz in January, 1907. Then construction works started. General plans for R-C works were signed in February and March 1907 by Dr. Pál Lipták and János Biehn János. The contractor was again Li pót Havel master builder, and the companies taking part in the project were the same as in the case of other buildings in the Campus. According to a proposed budget addressed to professor Bánki Donát dated on December 21st, 1909, the hall was to be divided into two parts lengthwise by inserting a 34 m long, 3 m tall and 8 cm thick partition between the R-C pillars. However, we have noplanatour disposal to represent or prove its realisation. In 1913 a series of 1:100 floor-plans was made and copied of this building and the hall is contained as an openplan one in the ground-floor horizontal designs stored in the archives of BME. No data is available about the damages done to the Engines Laboratory during the war: they are unlikely to have been serious. However, no reconstruction plans survived, and it is only the index of the archives of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics which proves that they had actually existed. Designs of a small single-storey flat-roof annex, the so-called locomobile engine room were ready in February, 1951 and it was actually built to connect to the southwestern corner of the Engines Laboratory on the side facing Building F next to an existing small cooling pool. In 1951 plans of further extension realized in 1952-53 were made. Two new R-C structure hall spans were added to the Engines Laboratory from
