Poruba Dormitory has been the second home to students of the VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava for 50 years. They were inaugurated on September 7, 1967, as one of the most modern and comprehensive university colleges in Central Europe.
Double or triple rooms with an anteroom were built for 670 students, equipped with fitted furniture, showers and phones. There was also a small kitchen and a clubroom with TV on each floor.
Building A provides accommodation on a total of 11 floors for 872 students. Each dwelling unit consists of two rooms (one double bedroom and one triple bedroom). These two rooms have shared sanitary facility and a hall with a refrigerator. There are two kitchenettes per floor. Every kitchenette is equipped with a cooking stove, electric kettles and a microwave.
The VŠB-TUO Accommodation Services managed to partially reconstruct building A with contribution of the Statutory City of Ostrava. Funds amounting to CZK 13 million were used for the reconstruction of part of the vertical footrests incl. sanitary facilities, air-conditioning, wiring and also new equipment of rooms 8 and 9 incl. hotel part, i.e. 22 dwellings in the student part and 2 dwellings in the hotel part of the building.
In November 2010, the reconstruction of building B was started, for which the VŠB-TUO Accommodation Services received a grant from the European Regional Development Fund. Reconstruction consisted of water and electricity restoration, floor coverings, modernization of sanitary facilities, equipping rooms with new furniture and achieving 100% cover of rooms by internet connection. The project also dealt with security conditions of accommodation, namely staircase escape routes, evacuation lift construction, modification of the connecting tract and the entrance hall.
Part of the reconstruction was also the construction of two hotel floors, which offers a higher standard of modern equipped hotel *** GARNI with a capacity of 83 beds.
At the present building B offers dwelling type accommodation units consisting of two rooms (triple and double room) with shared bathroom. Each hall is equipped with a fridge and a hanging wall hangers.
On each floor students have a kitchen equipped with ceramic hob and microwave.
Total capacity for students is 850 beds.
Building C offers accommodation for 456 students in double rooms of the dwelling type. Each dwelling consists of two rooms with shared bathroom facilities. There is a fridge in the hallway of each room.
On several floors are also built modern kitchenettes equipped with two cookers, an oven and a kettle. There is a microwave on each floor.
There is a laundry service on the ground floor where students can borrow bed linen for free.
Building D offers accommodation for 456 students in double rooms of the dwelling type. Each dwelling consists of two rooms with shared bathroom facilities. There is a fridge in the hallway of each room.
On several floors are also built modern kitchenettes equipped with two cookers, an oven and a kettle. There is a microwave on each floor.
For music lovers, a piano (Scholze piano) is located on the 7th floor.
Building E offers accommodation for 440 students in double rooms of the dwelling type. Each dwelling consists of two rooms with shared bathroom facilities. There is a fridge in the hallway of each room.
On several floors are also built modern kitchenettes equipped with two cookers, an oven and a kettle. There is a microwave on each floor.
Students can spend their free time in the gyms and in the table tennis rooms, located on the ground floor and in the basement of the building.
Building E offers hotel-type accommodation for 90 people.