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    Architecture for Community: Redefining Social Architecture
    (North Dakota State University, 2012) Foobalan, Malini
    This thesis investigates the question: can architecture create a sense of place and dignity amongst the homeless community? The typology for examination of this problem will be a hybrid of a transitional housing facility, and a community development center. The guiding idea behind this research is “by taking a look at the built environment, we should realize that architecture creates an emotional connection between human and building for a life satisfying experience.” The justification for this project is that, “using architecture as a facility for the homeless to develop a sense of place and create an identity for themselves.” A facility that can provide these psychological characteristics is essential for the service of the homeless community in South Lake Union, Seattle. The facility uses 60,000SF of area.
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    Water Resource Experiment Station
    (2011) Foobalan, Malini
    Students in this studio were asked to design a Water Resource Experiment Station at a site on the bank of the Missouri River west of Linton and South of Bismarck, North Dakota. The students were given presentations by studio collaborators from the Biology Department and the Department of Civil Engineering concerning the use of constructed wetlands to clean waste water from the laboratory and rain water harvesting from the building’s exterior to add fresh water to the clean waste water for the use of the laboratory. Each design is approximately 20,000 square feet in area, has public parking and public toilets accessible from the exterior and is intended to be open to the public for their use after hours and on the weekends. The design of this project was driven by the idea of water conforming to the form of land. The preliminary study resulted in a parti that represented a series of squares, where the designed developed from. My main intention was to present the experience I had at the site to the visitors of this building through architecture, most importantly, the views of the site. Because the site was very broad and open, I wanted the architecture to not dominate the site, but grow out of the site instead.