Armuth Miklós - Lőrinczi Zsuzsa (szerk.): A Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem Történeti Campusa (Budapest, 2023)
A Kémiai épület - The Chemistry Building Kalmár Miklós
6 2 lecture-hall) were strung along the axis of the building. The courtyard housed the groundfloor glass-roofed large hall, the Ch. Max. Even Czigler's critics admitted that the design was fine as such and that none of the rooms contained was a dark one. The more important rooms were housed on the upper floors, which reflects contemporary priorities. The second storery contained the rooms of the lecturer of Chemistry Technology, their laboratories and preparatory rooms. Czigler designed a lecture hall on the same level behindthemainfacadeontheaxisofthe building, and placed the library on the side facing the Danube. A skylight photography studio was contained in the part of the building on the courtyard side. The first storey featured the Chemisty (general chemistry) rooms. The lateral facades (towards the Danube and Budafoki Road) contained a rearrangeable laboratory and experimentation rooms. The library was housed behind the imposing facade overlooking Gellért Square. The large auditorium of the upper floor, CU Hall was accessible from the garden via two cloakrooms. The ground floors contained the laboratories of students and the teaching staff. A darkroom, library and gas-testing room was also housed here. The "assistants' work-station" with a large floor-space was supported by cast-iron struts placed in the centre of the room. The spacious lecture hall built in the courtyard was also accessible from here, the ground floor. The basement (at cellar level) housed laboratories, official quarters, depots, woodholes and other areas of operation and maintenance. Deep cellar was only built beneath the centre of the southern part of the building to contain the duplex central heating with double interior height. The coal-fired boilers were served by two chimneys symmetrically built in the headwalls. The garden facade is flanked by spacious loggias ("verandas") on the ground floor, the first and second storeys. Oddly positioned restroom groups reaching into the courtyard were placed on each level. The individual floors were accessible via several stairwells, the most important of which was the grand staircase starting from the main entrance in Gellért Square and leading on to the upper floors from two directions. In the wing closer to the garden, Czigler placed two staircases, including the main one leading to the C14 lecture hall on the first storey. The symmetrical main staircases were accessible via separate outdoors stairs and ornate gate. Right next to the main stairs DÍSZLÉPCSŐHÁZ | GRAND STAIRCASE
