The new student dormitory, as well as the restaurant that was built earlier, are part of the overall spatial composition with the existing classicist building of the former Austro-Hungarian barracks (today the student dormitory). With the student restaurant on the front (west) side, the restaurant forms an orthogonal classic city access square, while on the back (east) side the new student dormitory forms a semi closed block composition with the existing dormitory opening to the west, drawing the restaurant into a linear composition.

The new student dormitory is a tall structure that cascades on floors from the attic level of the existing dormitory in the east. It is a continuously flat volume up to the end of the block’s tract in the south where it descends again and adjusts to the cornice height of the existing building. The stepped terraced treatment of the upper floors of the new student dormitory tracts creates a certain imaginary slope, a metaphor of the sloping roofs of the existing house, and on the other hand actually combines the vocabulary of its flat roofed, single floors with the compact, simple shape of the restaurant pavilion.

The building consists of one underground floor, ground floor and 5 above ground floors. There is a garage in the basement. On the ground floor there are the student facilities, bicycle parking and other service areas, and a total of 243 rooms with 600 beds are planned on the 5 above-ground floors. The composition of the new building leans on its immediate urban context. At the site, on the south side, there are railway lines, train life and stopped freight trains. In a narrower context, there is the old dormitory with its defined height and its treatment of the façade with strips of stylized classicism.

All existing themes generate a new building block. The plastic of the prefabricated concrete strips divides the floors and calms the rhythm between the transparent surfaces of the glass and the full dark fiber-cement slabs. The roof surfaces are flat, partly designed as terraces, and the cantilevers at the ends are part of the dialogue with the dynamics of the railway.

The newly built building is energy A +, uses heat pumps, has a solar power panels on the roof for its own needs, uses rainwater and supplies energy to the existing home.