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A Kazánház és a kémény - The Boiler-House and the chimney Gy. Balogh Ágnes
EE 2 0 0 o O < room, office and social areas of the boilermen. The chimney which had been a freestanding structure was thus integrated in the boiler-room volume, and the reconstruction of the facade was also put on the agenda. The same plan includes the concept of increasing the roof height by 1,5 metres scheduled for a later date: building permits were issued in 1951, but luckily, this intervention had never been realised. In 1952 the reaction ties of the wooden roofing were replaced with new ones, and a new cinders lift was built right outside a window on the eastern facade. First in 1952, then in 1955 again new boiler-rooms were developed. In the spring of 1956 minor modifications were realised: one of the large windows was converted into an emergency exit on the eastern wall, and a new wall was built in the underground coal depot beside the building. The summer of 1956 saw an extensive restoration of the facades, as well as the replacement of some stones in the plinths, a new brickwork, and replastering of the rendered finishes. Damaged by frost and bulletscars, the parapets of the roof-terraces received masonry repairs. In 1964 the heating of the University had already been supplied partly by the Kelenföld Thermal Plant via two thermal pipes. The institution gradually switched over to the district heating network by equipping several caloric centres on the Campus. The installation of the new heating system permitted the demolition of the old boilers. To replace them plans were made to house the equipment of the Caloric (Kalor II.) Building, including a Zemak and two Sulzer make steam boilers, a reciprocating steam engine and a steam backpressure turbine forthe purposes of the Department of Heat Engines (today: Department of Energy Engineering) of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering which was suited to study the equipment of a modern thermal plant. In 1967 the preliminary plans of this small-output thermal plant were ready. Large-scale remodellings had been planned, which, however, remained in blueprint: from the east a new part would have been built as an annex, the entire wooden roofing of the boiler-house was meant to be pulled down and replaced by an R-C frame with a flat roof, crane trails and ribbon windows. The stairwell of the court-facing part would have been remodelled as a flat-roofed one. As a result, the facade designs would have lost their character. In 1967-1968 working drawings for the single-storey flat-roof steam-reception hall clad in brick were made: joining the eastern side of the building it was realised in 1968 after the demolition of the external cinders lift. The cellar now housed the steam reception function, whilst the ground-floor contained the operating room, social area and an office. Although this part was pulled down in 2004, the traces it had left still spoil the facade. In March, 1971 plansweremadetorebuildthechimney according to which the upper part of the 55 m tall structure was reduced to 35 m height and the section between the height of 28,6 and 35 m was reconstructed. At the same time the conical R-C narrowing of the chimney was also built. Kir. jäsncr MLOsyrnTM ÉPiTKCZcac-”“ KflZTlmrfe-TMEXnr L_flLnPR7VK j=^ M-rmo pfoii j j j I'M i-~r■? ELSŐ EMELETI ALAPRAJZ I FIRST FLOOR PLAN, 1913
