Browsing by Subject "Duluth (Minn.)"
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Accessibility Through Design
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis, Accessibility Through Design, will seek to explore the question: How can the design of a long-term care facility help promote physical and social accessibility of the elderly within an urban fabric, so as to ... -
Adaptable Architecture: Architecture That Responds to Changing Needs
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis explores the use of adaptable architecture and its ability to change to diverse program and user needs. By using flexible and kinetic components in the design of a performing arts center, it can expand the ... -
Adapting an icon : adaptive reuse of downtown movie theaters
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Downtown theaters serve as landmarks for many communities across our region because of their unique design features. Elaborate auditoriums, decorated facades, and flashy, grand marquees are all iconic characteristics of ... -
best if used by: Duluth Recycling and Production Factory
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis work looks to explore and determine the lifetime/expiration of a structure. The longevity of a building’s life is its ability to adapt to current needs. The project will use the shells of old structures in ... -
Bridging the Gap: Adaptive Reuse of an Intergenerational Learning Center
(North Dakota State University, 2016)This design thesis adaptively reuses the former St. Louis County Jail to house an independent living facility and a preschool that incorporates an Intergenerational Learning Center, located in the Downtown Waterfront ... -
Digital Library of Duluth
(North Dakota State University, 2011)The underlying concept for this thesis is the beginning of discussion overtly looking at how computing technology is used by architects today. The discussion will center around critical analysis of uses of software in ... -
Echo: Elemental Architecture as a Method of Cleansing Freshwater in the Wake of Industrialization
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Existing as a force powerful enough to shape the face of the earth, yet delicate enough to sustain the life within our bodies, water is an element with which humans have continuously sought balance. Water has eternally ... -
Growing & Aging- a new way of connecting generations
(North Dakota State University, 2013)“Growing and Aging: a new way of connecting generations,” is an exploration of a new architectural typology that tries to fill in the generation gap existing between young people and our aging society. When looking at the ... -
Human's Offense - Nature's Defense
(North Dakota State University, 2016)How can design influence the way we view, understand and interact with a powerfully dynamic natural setting? No matter how long or to what extent that man intervenes with the natural world, mother nature will always ... -
Influencing Identity
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Influencing Identity attempts to identify the relationship between architecture and the unique identity possessed by each city. The typology used in identifying this relationship is an addition to an art museum. The ... -
Instascape: Employing Social Media to Connect the Physical and Cultural Environment in Duluth’s Downtown Waterfront
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Eisenhower’s great uniting Interstate Highway System may have brought many communities closer to each other, but in many instances, severed them internally. We see this problem in the city of Duluth, Minnesota. The central ... -
The New Modern Library
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis focuses on the relationship between a building and its contents, how this effects the layout and appearance of the building, and the changing needs of a typology. The typology used in examining this relationship ... -
Oncology Center: Healing through Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2018)The typology of my project is healthcare design. Based on past research, many studies have shown that the environment and space that an individual is in can strongly influence a person’s treatment plan and healing process. ... -
The Redesign of Lakeshore Architecture: A Mixed Use Approach to a Single Use Idea
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Boathouses are currently banned in Minnesota do to their effect on our lakeshores, but this may not be the right solution to the issues they face. Just because something is outlawed does not mean that it is entirely bad, ... -
Remedial architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2015)The North Shore Healing Center gives a place for personal mental health rehabilitation. This building provides a safe and comfortable place for people to rebuild themselves. It uses natural healing remedies and holistic ... -
Reusing Structure
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis attempts to understand how built structures can evolve over time through use and reuse. It looks at how reusing a space is possible by taking a warehouse structure and reusing it for the new purpose of living ... -
Snowboarding: Fitting Use or Urban Abuse?
(2013)Central Hillside Park in Duluth, Minnesota is an often desolate park in the heart of downtown. My design seeks to create a new type of project, an urban snowpark in which every part of the urban block can be ridden compared ... -
Urban Activation
(North Dakota State University, 2017)There are many elements within a city that provide a significant impact on your quality of life. Quality of life is a subjective measure of the overall happiness of a person or a community usually measured within the ... -
Waterfront Discovery
(2012)Water possesses a fundamental energy that allows for a unique biodiversity of organisms to inhabit this planet. It has long been an overlooked resource on this Earth and for that reason I would like to use its inherent ...