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    By You For You
    (North Dakota State University, 2012) Frey, Brittney
    By You For You examines how much stimulus is necessary for a space to meet our needs. The typology is a multi-family dwelling. The theoretical premise/unifying idea states that designing merely for basic human needs allows for use that is more adaptable. Within the given parameters, the individuals are responsible for the uniqueness of the space. The project justification is that architecture demands strict codes to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of its occupants. However, flexibility of space is also important to society because individuals respond better to different environments. By designing just the basics, buildings remain progressive instead of a product of the times. The final design offers 18 residential units, underground parking for 22 vehicles, and a rooftop garden terrace at a total of 43,200 square feet. At just around 100,000 residents and growing, Rochester, MN, provides many amenities and activities to locals and smalltown commuters. There is a need for more housing because of the dynamic demographics. The Mayo Clinic also brings in student residents needing temporary and potential long-term housing. Using the concurrent transformative strategy, I will analyze and interpret both historical and present conditions relating to adaptive spaces. From there, I will also research related topics including green design, health, and wellbeing in relation to building form and function and building materials. Data will be collected both quantitatively and qualitatively through a variety of means. The quantitative data will include both statistical and scientific data gathered mainly through archival searches. The qualitative data will be gathered from direct observation and analysis, local surveys, archival searches, and interviews.
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    Water Resource Experiment Station
    (2011) Frey, Brittney
    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 inspiration for this project came from the rolling hills that surround the site and the approach to the site. As the project evolved, it became one with the site, emerging out of the bluff so as not to disturb the existing site but harmonize with it. The public are invited to experience the research being conducted in the laboratory space as well as the apparatus room. All public circulation space provides views of the river and the bluffs. All of the private employee offices, break room, and small conference rooms have direct views of the outside while the mail room and large conference receive diffuse light. The connection from inside to outside is necessary because of the importance of the Missouri River to the Water Resource Experiment Station.