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    Design for Well-Being: Architecture to Reduce Health Inequity
    (North Dakota State University, 2019) Falk, Paige
    As a society, we are faced with ever-changing healthcare costs and quality of care. Unfortunately, not everyone can access, or afford, the care that they need. Throughout the country, many people are facing illness and injury untreated, due to the cost of healthcare. While the issue has been addressed on a national scale, the problems are not always dealt with on a local scale for the needs of the community. Dealing with the factors of health inequity, such as housing, community, food shortage, education, and environment, will lead us to changing the communities where the problem is located and bring about a society where everyone can achieve health and wellbeing. Finding a solution to health inequities is a problem that needs to be solved. This thesis will seek to develop the efficiency of healthcare architecture in a way that makes it more affordable to those it who cannot currently access it. This will be done through cost evaluation, efficiency analyses, and green design, with the goal of creating a community center and clinic for neighborhoods on a local scale. If designed correctly, this design may be implemented as a base model for other neighborhoods with health disparities across the country.
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    Regenerative Architecture: Making Nature an Equal Partner in Design
    (North Dakota State University, 2019) Jewison, Zachary
    The current example in the field of architecture today is one of degeneration and obsolete building technologies. Regenerative architecture is the practice of engaging the natural world as the medium for, and producer of the architecture. It responds to and employs the living and natural systems that exist on a site that become the “building blocks” of the architecture. Regenerative architecture has two focuses; the first is to design with attention to conservation and performance through reduction on the environmental impacts of a building and the following is to make the environment an equal partner in design.