PROGETTAZIONE DELLE COSTRUZIONI RURALI
Academic Year 2026/2027 - Teacher: GIOVANNI CASCONEExpected Learning Outcomes
1. Knowledge and Understanding
Student acquire 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. Student acquire the technical skills to prepare the bill of quantities and cost estimation for a rural building.
2. Applying Knowledge and Understanding
Students can analyse the layout of interior spaces according to production requirements, applying appropriate constructive and plant engineering principles to different building typologies. Students are also capable of assessing conservation and enhancement interventions on existing agri-industrial building heritage.
3. Making Judgements
Students are able to critically evaluate design and construction choices relating to rural buildings. Students can formulate well-reasoned judgements on the functional and plant engineering adequacy of a building with respect to the stated production objectives.
4. Communication Skills
Students are able to present, using appropriate technical language, the design, constructive, and plant engineering choices relating to agri-industrial buildings, both orally and in writing. They can describe and argue the analysis of case studies, illustrate functional and constructive solutions through outlines, and communicate effectively with professionals from different backgrounds — including designers, engineers, and agricultural operators — in interdisciplinary working contexts.
5. Learning Skills
Students develop the ability to independently update their knowledge in the field of rural construction, keeping pace with regulatory, technological, and sustainable practice developments in the sector. They can research and select relevant technical, regulatory, and economic sources, and transfer the analytical methods learned to new design and production contexts.
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.
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..