New Aula, Assembly hall at VSB Technical University in Poruba, Czech Republic

The New Aula is an assembly building on the VSB Technical University campus that contains multiple lecture halls and meeting rooms for university activities. The modern facility is equipped for presentations and can accommodate large groups of students and faculty.

The building was constructed as part of the VSB Technical University's development, which traces its roots to a mining school from the 19th century. The construction of this assembly hall supported the university's expansion and growing educational needs.

The main hall seats 465 people and has galleries with boxes for journalists and interpreters, plus audio, video and control rooms. The academic square outside, with its amphitheatre and artificial water cascade, is used for gatherings before and after ceremonies. The building is linked to other VŠB-TUO buildings by suspended walkways.

The building stands at the end of the heritage-protected Hlavní třída in Poruba, on the VŠB-TUO campus; suspended walkways link it directly to neighbouring university buildings. Trams stop at VŠB-TUO and buses at Poruba, VŠB. The main hall seats 465, and the building is barrier-free, with a lift, underground and surface parking, and an outdoor academic square with an amphitheatre and a water cascade.

The suspended walkways link the New Aula directly to other VŠB-TUO buildings, so visitors can move between them without going outside. The main hall seats 465 people and has gallery boxes for journalists, interpreters and audio-video production. In 2007 the building and the university's Centre for Information Technology won the Grand Prix in the Moravian-Silesian Building of the Year competition.