THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING

Course objectives

The module Landscape and Urban agriculture aims the knowledge of the importance and role of agriculture and agricultural landscape for the requalification of the todays’ cities and for the prevention of environmental and biological risks in the peri-urban areas. The module will provide tools for the evaluation of the damages deriving from agriculture marginalization, i.e. loss in fertile soils, biodiversity erosion, loss of local identities and traditional landscapes. Finally, the instrument of the landscape project will be developed aiming the aesthetic and functional requalification of the agricultural spaces proximal or included in the city. Knowledge and understanding − Acquisition of specific tools for understanding and interpreting the peri-urban agricultural landscape, its multifunctionality and the relationships among agro-food productions and valorisation of the territory, with the aim to counteract the urban environmental decay and to promoted a better quality life of the contemporary habitat. Applying knowledge and understanding − ability to apply the acquired knowledge and tools for the development of strategies of improvement of the rural-urban space relationship; application of the acquired skills in the urban agriculture project at different scales; ability to deals with a wider landscape project. − − Making judgements − Ability to evaluate and organize data, assessments and proposals for landscape transformation and improvement using a technical language and specific tools of the design discipline (graphic elaborations, technical reports, info-graphics, views, etc.) Communications − in accordance and interaction with the other Modules of the Laboratory, field test of techniques and methods of representation, argumentation and communication of cognitive data and design choices aimed at dialectical and interdisciplinary comparison and dialogue with possible users, administrators, etc. . Lifelong learning skills − Acquisition of knowledge and tools to form a working method for the design of the landscape applicable to different contexts.

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Course program
The students will be guided in the development of a landscape project aimed at valorizing or regenerating spaces of peri-urban and urban agriculture, or at increasing the resilience of agro-forest systems in the metropolitan area of Rome, against agronomical and environmental risks. The landscape project will be introduced by basic and preparatory arguments and learning of specific tools for the agricultural landscape analysis. The project will be oriented at the proposal of an alternative fruition of the public open spaces through the agricultural use at different scales of intervention. The laboratory is an interdisciplinary one, in which the three different teaching courses are closely interconnected and integrated, in order to address problems and design choices in terms of complexity, multiple relationships with the context, dialogue and critical interrelation of skills and knowledge of different fields of investigation and action. Didactic units: 1. The urban and peri-urban agriculture: theory of the forms and functions of the agriculture in the urban and peri-urban contest through the analysis of different European and extra-European cases (1CFU); 2. Tools and methods for the project of urban agriculture: presentation, analysis and interpretation of contemporary projects (0.5CFU); 3. The productive landscape project: laboratory activities (application and verification of knowledge and design tools through the construction of a specific proposal of the study area, chosen in concert with the other teachers of the laboratory (1,5 CFU)
Prerequisites
− Knowledge of theoretical basis, tools, techniques of landscape architecture and open spaces design; − knowledge of traditional and innovative instruments and techniques for cartographic, topographical, spatial and landscape interpretation and representation; − knowledge of the characteristics of natural and biological systems (water, soil, agricultural and forest systems) as well as of the tools and the techniques of the landscape ecology to be applied in the landscape project when the management of the ecosystems at the different scales is required.
Books
Donadieu P. (2013). Campagne urbane, Donzelli, Roma ISBN: 88-6036-004-8 Lickwar P, Thoren R. (2020). Farmscape. The design of productive landscapes. Routledge, NY .ISBN ‎ 978-1138054653 Philips A. (2013). Designing urban agriculture, J.Wiley & Sons, New Jersey Viljoen A,, Bohn K. (2014). Second nature urban agriculture, Routledge, NY De la Salle J., Holland M. (2010). Agricultural urbanism, HB Lanarc Consultants Ltd, Canada Scientific documents open access
Teaching mode
The didactic units 1 and 2 are based on frontal lessons and study seminars. The laboratory activity (unit 3) is based on exercises (data collection, analysis and representation) and design elaborations implemented by Individual and collective revisions of the project.
Frequency
Frequency mode • Mandatory
Exam mode
The evaluation of the Module will be performed together with the evaluation of the comprehensive landscape project developed in the Landscape design Studio II. The final evaluation will be based on: - the practical excercises produced during the year (as a verification of the knowledge of instruments for understanding and interpreting the relationships between agricultural spaces and contemporary city) - the final elaborations = table of an urban agriculture project in the study area (as a verification of the knowledge of tools for the construction and communication of the project proposal) - the ability to argue, expose and critically comment the project proposal
Lesson mode
The didactic units 1 and 2 are based on frontal lessons and study seminars. The laboratory activity (unit 3) is based on exercises (data collection, analysis and representation) and design elaborations implemented by Individual and collective revisions of the project.
  • Academic year2025/2026
  • CourseLandscape Architecture
  • CurriculumLandscape Architecture
  • Year2nd year
  • Semester1st semester
  • SSDAGR/03
  • CFU3