Browsing by Subject "California."
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Borderwalk: Spatial Politics and Cultural Intimacies on the U.S.-Mexican Border
(North Dakota State University, 2012)By definition, borders lie on the edges. This project investigates the spatial implications of politically defined borders, and the effects that these materializations have in the context of urban space and the movement ... -
Cradle for change : finding the space between home and homelessness
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis is about creating a place where the poor and homeless can live without fear of where the money for their living arrangements is coming from and where they can be taught useful skills for reintegrating into ... -
The Edge as In-Between: Ruin and Rebirth at San Francisco's Sutro Baths
(North Dakota State University, 2016)The ruins of Sutro Baths in San Francisco exist at the edge of coast and sea, at the edge of past and present, and at the edge of construction and deconstruction. Edges have historically been associated with the physical ... -
Future Forum: Fostering Important Conversations
(North Dakota State University, 2019)As a species we are approaching a convergence of a confluence of factors that will determine the fate of all future conscious experience as we know it. How we use technology in the near future will determine this playing ... -
The Hierarchy of innovation
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Currently we have the opportunity to use architecture as a vehicle for innovation. The thesis title “The Hierarchy of Innovation” is an analogy and in this case relates to “a hierarchy of needs” for the current society. ... -
Listen: A Sensory Experience
(North Dakota State University, 2017)This thesis project uses interpretive and evaluative research methods to examine how best to bring two social circles together through intentional design, education, and immersion. The project is a design proposal for a ... -
Nexus: Creating Necessary Bonds Through Communal Living
(North Dakota State University, 2017)The main topic of this this thesis is community based public housing, meaning that this project focuses on the communal aspects of public housing and how they can be incorporated into a building in order to create a more ... -
OKITSUKAZE: Enhancing San Diego’s Urban Coastal Development through the Exploration of Wind Patterning and Adaptation
(2017)This project deals with the wind, one of the most familiar phenomenon that affects our outside activity. When in the summer, the breath under the tree will give to your comfortable break time. However, the wind suddenly ... -
On the Edge of Empathy: Amplifying the Veteran's Voice
(North Dakota State University, 2020)We live in a world of physical and conceptual edges that guide and shape our lives, and challenge us every day to choose whether to cross them or to remain within their shepherding corrals. Often we forget that edges ... -
Overcoming: Guiding Individuals through Liminal Conditions on the Pathway to Adulthood
(North Dakota State University, 2020)The approach to student housing has been stuck in the past while its inhabitants are evolving towards their future. This thesis research will examine the significance and importance of a building as a rite of passage ... -
Pollinator Paradise: Restoring Bee Habitat through a Recreational and Educational Park in Los Angeles, California
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Bees play an important part in our community. They pollinate over one third of all of our food. Many people do not realize the importance of bees and pollinators and their existence. How can we educate and protect such an ... -
Promoted ecological Migration: Preserving San Francisco Bay’s Tidal Wetlands
(2013)The intent of this research is to preserve and increase the resiliency of the native landscape in and around San Jose, California in regards to natural and man induced changes. Habitat near San Jose has been suffering from ... -
Refractive Architecture: A Paradigm Shift through Education
(North Dakota State University, 2018)A place of no place, void of connection or meaning. We are moving ever more rapidly into a utopian society. A society of automatons, operating as machines. Aspects of our world today have been reduced and categorized to a ... -
Revisiting Riverfronts: Creating Safe Urban Waterfronts That Can be Used Outside of Large Storm Events
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Blue Spaces - areas along rivers, lakes, oceans, etc ... - in Urban Areas have shown to improve pedestrians physical and mental health. Due to climate change these spaces are in danger of becoming deserted and forgotten. ... -
Tuolumne Meadow: Conservation of Yosemite's Meadows through Recreational and Educational Planning
(2016)Alpine meadows are delicate ecosystems that are being damaged and declining. In Yosemite only 3% of the park is considered meadow habitat. Through this thesis I am exploring the question; how can we conserve these alpine ... -
Wayfinding in Virtual Reality: Wayfinding Through the Lens of Virtual Reality in Videogame Design
(North Dakota State University, 2017)This thesis, Virtual Architecture: application of architectural design within the realm of video games and virtual realities, examines and challenges how architecture is viewed in a simulated setting by its users as ...