RURAL BUILDINGS DESIGN
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: Giovanni CASCONEExpected Learning Outcomes
Knowledge of construction elements technology and preliminary design, Design of plants and equipments for agricultural buildings, Bioclimatic building design, Design and supervision of agricultural buildings in relation to the Italian national standards.
Course Structure
Frontal teaching, exercises, technical visits.
Learning assessment consists in an oral and/or written ongoing test and a final oral test.
If teaching is given in a mixed formula or remotely, necessary changes may be introduced to what was previously stated in order to comply with the privided and reported syllabus.
Learning assessment may also be carried out on line, should the conditions require it.
As a guarantee of equal opportunities and in compliance with current laws, interested students can ask for a personal interview in order to plan any compensatory and/or dispensatory measures, based on their specific needs and on teaching objectives of the discipline.
It is also possible to ask the departmental contacts of CInAP (Center for Active and Participatory Integration - Services for Disabilities and/or DSAs), in the persons of professors Giovanna Tropea Garzia and Anna De Angelis.
Attendance of Lessons
Detailed Course Content
Knowledge of construction elements technology: reinforced concrete structures, steel structures, bearing masonry, foundations, slabs, roofs. Sciece and techniques of constructions: load analysis, design stresses. Design of rural buildings in relation to the Italian national standards. The rural house. The bioclimatic design of rural houses. Elements for recovery and reuse of agricultural buildings. Economic and administrative documents in support of agricultural buildings designs: technical report, list of prices, price analysis, bill of quantities and costs, tender specifications. Plants and equipments design of cooling system for animal houses. Plants and equipments design for heating system and cooling system for greenhouses. Contributes to the objectives of the agenda 2030 for the sustainable development. Goal 12 - "Bringing about more sustainable production and consumption patterns". Target 12.2 - "By 2030, achieve the management and efficient use of natural resources".
Exercises: Structural preliminary design of structural elements of agricultural buildings, Economic and administrative documents in support of the graphic design carried out in the course on "Agricultural buildings" (2nd year of the degree course on "Agrucultural science and technologies" - L25).
Textbook Information
1) Chiumenti R., Costruzioni rurali, RCS Libri, Milano, 2004.
2) Allen E., I fondamenti del costruire, McGraw-Hill Libri Italia, Milano, 1997.
3) Albright L. D., Environment control for animal and plants, The American Society of Agricultural Engineers, St. Joseph, Michigan, USA, 1990.
4) Esmay M. L., Dixon J. E., Environmental control for agricultural buildings, The AVI Piblishing Company, Westport, Connecticut, 1986.
5) De Pascalis S., Progettazione bioclimatica, Dario Flaccovio Editore, Palermo, 2001.
6) Supporti didattici forniti dal docente.
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Building elements of a rural building: concrete structures, steel structures, masonry structures, foundations, floors, roofs. | Textbook 2): capp. 7, 8, 9, 10 11, 12.Textbook 6): Didactic supports given by the teacher. |
| 2 | Elements of science and technology of constructions: load analysis, forces and moments, tensions. Predimensioning of the structures of a rural building. Exercises. | Textbook 6): Didactic supports given by the teacher. |
| 3 | Rules for building design in rural areas. | Textbook 6): Didactic supports given by the teacher. |
| 4 | The farmhouse | Textbook 1): cap. 4 |
| 5 | Elements of bioclimatic architecture. | Textbook 5): capp. 1, 3, 4, 5, 7 |
| 6 | Elements for the design of recovery and reuse of rural buildings. | Textbook 6): Didactic supports given by the teacher. |
| 7 | Economic and administrative reports of the designs of rural buildings: technical reports, list of the prices, analysis of the prices, bill of quantities and costs, tender specifications. Exercises using the graphic design carried out during the course on "Costruzioni per l'agricoltura" (2° year of the CdL on "Scienze e tecnologie agrarie" - L25). | Textbook 6): Didactic supports given by the teacher. |
| 8 | The design of cooling systems for animal houses. Exercises. | Textbook 3): cap. 5. Textbook 4): capp. 4, 10. Textbook 6): Didactic supports given by the teacher. |
| 9 | The design of heating installations and cooling systems for greenhouses Exercises. | Textbook 4): cap. 16. Textbook 6): Didactic supports given by the teacher. |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Interim written/oral test and final oral test with discussion of the exercise carried out during the course regarding the drafting of the economic and administrative elaborations accompanying the graphic design of a rural building
Verification of learning is through oral examination. Evaluation of the student's preparation will be based on the following criteria: ability to learn and level of depth of the topics covered, properties of synthesis and exposition, and ability to reason.
Verification of learning can be carried out also by telematic means if the conditions should make it necessary.
Grading is expressed in thirtieths according to the following pattern:
Ineligible
Subject knowledge and understanding: significant deficiencies, significant inaccuracies
Ability to analyze and synthesize: irrelevant, inability to synthesize
Use of references: completely inappropriate.
18-20
Subject knowledge and understanding: at threshold level, obvious imperfections
Ability to analyze and synthesize: barely sufficient ability
Use of references: barely appropriate.
21-23
Knowledge and understanding topic: routine knowledge
Ability to analyze and synthesize: is able to analyze and synthesize correctly. argues logically and coherently
Use of references: uses standard references.
24-26
Subject knowledge and understanding: good knowledge
Analysis and synthesis skills: Has good analysis and synthesis skills. topics are expressed consistently
Use of references: uses standard references.
27-29
Knowledge and understanding topic: knowledge more than good
Analytical and synthesis skills: has considerable analytical and synthesis skills
Use of references: has deepened understanding of topics.
30-30 e lode
Knowledge and understanding topic: knowledge very good
Ability to analyze and synthesize: has considerable ability to analyze and synthesize.
Use of referenze: important insights.