Course Details

Rural and Farm Buildings

Academic Year 2024/25

BGA016 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-APS Winter Semester 2nd year

Design of rural and farm buildings. Grasp of the principles of urbanistic, architectural, typological and structural execution of buildings while meeting the requirements for the identity of the country and environmental protection. Current test of information, laws, regulations, standards and data regarding physiological claims, spatial and technological needs which, in summary, enable optimum and energy-efficient solution of rural and farm buildings.

Credits

3 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. arch. Petr Dýr, Ph.D.

Institute

Link

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

Elementary knowledge of the building constructions, building physics and typology.

Aims

Knowledge of the rural environment and architecture, specialities of designing residential and public buildings in the country, buildings for agricultural production and storage.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. knowledge of the rural environment and architecture, specialities of designing residential and public buildings in the country, buildings for agricultural production and storage.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/281501

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Characteristics of the country, cultural, regional and technical specificities in construction
  • 2. Housing construction in the country
  • 3. Structures of public and servicing facilities
  • 4. Greenery, small architecture and engineering equipment
  • 5. Family agricultural farms, agro-turism
  • 6. Location of farm buildings in the country side, structural and technical aspects
  • 7. Microclimate of inner space and hygiene of working environment
  • 8. Architecture of farm buildings
  • 9. Horse breeding and sheep farming buildings, riding manéges
  • 10. Cattle and pig breeding and production buildings
  • 11. Poultry farming and production buildings, fur animal husbandry buildings
  • 12. Greenhouses, potatoes and fruit stores, corn silos
  • 13. Fodder and animal excrement stores

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Analysis of broader urban relations
  • 2. Analysis of the master plan agricultural centre
  • 3. Analysis of the master plan agricultural centre
  • 4. Analysis of the agricultural centre in relation to the architecture
  • 5. Analysis of the structural system
  • 6. Analysis of the structural system
  • 7. Analysis of the rural urbanism
  • 8. Analysis of the rural urbanism
  • 9. Analysis of rural residential buildings
  • 10.Analysis of rural residential buildings
  • 11.Analysis of rural public works
  • 12.Analysis of rural public works
  • 13.Final evaluation of the results of the work