Szablyár Péter: Sky-high - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2007)

Office Blocks and Public Buildings

■ SOT fi, Block oh Theoretical Medicine

rooms and management offices. The communications areas were designed to facilitate the movements of 1,300 people simultaneously present in the building. The boiler servicing the block is located on the premises of the Pál Heim Children's Hospital.

The complex comprises the 89.25-metre tower block and a 7.6-metre high flat building. The tower block, which has a total floor space of 650 square metres, has two staircases. The building has a monolithic reinforced-concrete structure and roof, brick parapets, and a fafade of curtain-walls made of profiled and thermal glass set in an aluminium framework. The building's water, gas and sewage pipes are connected to the city’s mains systems. Electric power is supplied through the block's own distribution and transformer boxes.

The monolithic reinforced-concrete structure is buttressed by a 6.4 by 6.4 metre arrangement of pillars, and the building is covered by a 20-centimetre thick mono32

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