Kitchen and modular furniture for team and individual work. Each of the seven floors of halls connecting buildings A3 and A4 on the campus of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the BUT, has been transformed into new facilities for students. On Tuesday, 7 February, the facilities were symbolically opened in the presence of the BUT and faculty management, the ribbon cutting was attended by the dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Jiří Hlinka and the rector of the BUT Ladislav Janíček.
"We have known for a long time that we are in great need of similar facilities for students. That is why we have been counting on its construction and have been working on it ever since we started to deal with the reconstruction of another block of buildings on the faculty's premises," explained Petr Tesař, secretary of the faculty. From the very beginning, the faculty counted on the fact that the construction of the facilities would not be covered by subsidies and invested the entire construction for almost CZK 7 million from its own budget.
Student opinions were also included in the preparations and representatives of the Student Chamber of the Academic Senate participated in meetings with architects from the Velehradský Studio, who designed the new form of the articulated halls. Previously a relatively large and open space, it has now been redesigned to allow students to relax or study, whether they need to work alone or in a team on a project. Each floor is also equipped with a kitchenette with microwave, and there are drinks and snack machines in a separate room on the ground floor.
After the A3 building, the A2 building is now undergoing renovation. "The adjacent articulated halls will be adapted in a similar spirit, i.e. after the completion of the renovations, leisure and relaxation facilities for our students will be created there as well. We are planning additional spaces, this time primarily for studying as study rooms or team rooms, in the future in building A5, which we would also like to renovate," adds Tesař.
In the new facilities in KH3, only minor details are being fine-tuned, but they do not affect the operation and the facilities are now in full use for students with the start of the summer semester. We ask all its users to treat the new equipment with respect and to make it last as long as possible not only for them, but also for future generations.