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
used the traditional system of majorand side-purlins to build independent tie-beam wooden roof structures. In June 1938 Antal Schweriner worked out the designs for the extension of the Concrete and Reinforced Concrete Construction Lab based on part of the courtyard developed in the corner between the southern wing and the one towards the quay next to the tower. In the singlestorey extension with cellars beneath and glass skylight above a 500-ton press and pump was installed. During World War II, at the end of 1944 military troops were accommodated in the buildings of the University and battle positions were set up which caused a variety of damage to the institution. In notes that came down to us it was recorded that the artillerymen accommodated in the Department of Applied Mechanics broke in closed doors. Even worse damage was made to the building during the fighting: the central part of the street tract of the southern wing was completely ruined, all the glass panes to the roof of the experimental engine-hall were broken, and the wind-engine was most probably destroyed meanwhile. Designs for the reconstruction of the building were ready in 1947 to preserve the round water tank on the upper in the room lit by slit loop-like windows and to construct four new slab beneath. This way low rooms (with 2,46 interior height) were provided. According to the drawings there had been no water in the cellar at that time any more. The levels of the water-tower have been used as lecture-rooms and workrooms ever since. In 1948 the large laboratory upstairs was converted into a tiered auditorium for the purposes of the Institution of Agricultural Mechanics. The former collection hall in the north-eastern corner upstairs was split into smaller rooms for student circles. In line with the survey plans made in 1948 several smaller rooms were furnished in the destroyed part of the Campus on the sites of the larger labs, and the entrance hall was also split into two. In November, 1950 permission was given "to construct a two-storey extension in the inner wing yard-facing for the purposes of the experimental mill". Designs of the four-storey experimental mill were made by the Public Building Design Institute. Partly one, partly two new storeys were added to top the third tract of the northern wing (including the burner, steamerand depot units) facing the courtyard. The unadorned facade of this extension disintegrates the original composition of the building. The new facades were clad in bricks made in Mezőtúrto adjust them to the textures of the original ones. In 1951 when the Public Building Design Company worked out a construction programme to realise the Drawing Room (later on R) building along the Danube bank, Gyula Rimanóczy made designs with the potential to completely rebuild the MM-MG building that stood as the immediate continuation of the would-be structure argueing that it had "a most unfortunate, zigzagging floor-plan that cannot be used advantageously”. Plans included an additional storey "to tranquilize its architecture to an appropriate level", as well as a one-storey bridge to connect it with the would-be R building. Designs by Pál Kisdi and Dénes Perczel made a decade later already proposed the demolition of the building.
