Browsing by Subject "Rochester (Minn.)"
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Adaptable Architecture in a Regenerative Medicine Facility
(North Dakota State University, 2013)The proposed regenerative medicine facility, in downtown Rochester, MN is the platform for investigating how a building can adapt with the expansion of human knowledge. The realization of adaptability in architecture can ... -
Additive + Subtractive: Reimagining the Work of a Mid-Century Master
(North Dakota State University, 2017)How do we build upon someone else’s work in a thoughtful and meaningful way while respecting the original character of their work? The challenge is even greater when the designer and architecture are known around the world ... -
Alzheimer's Remediation Center: Architecture for Research Innovation and Treatment
(North Dakota State University, 2013)“Alzheimer’s Remediation Center: Architecture for Research Innovation and Treatment” addresses the question, “How can perceived spaces within a structure affect memory retention?” The Typology from which to examine this ... -
By You For You
(North Dakota State University, 2012)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 ... -
Cascade Creek revitalizing community
(2014)Located adjacent to downtown Rochester, MN are three neighborhoods that are in the midst of revitalizing their housing infrastructure. Each neighborhood is taking steps to become a viable family neighborhood with a developed ... -
Ecological Resilient Landscapes: Averting a Pending Disaster
(2011)Scars can be inflicted on landscapes after decades of human intervention. This project is meant to embrace the effects of remedial ecological design on our fragmented landscapes. Limited human intervention is an essential ... -
Expanding Experiential Perception
(North Dakota State University, 2011)By understanding the affects of built space on those who have limited physical or mental abilities, we are able to create space that could facilitate their very specific needs. Currently, there are many ways to facilitate ... -
The Genesis Project : exploring the convergence of architecture, music, & life
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Music is an innate human quality that provokes physical, mental, and spiritual responses both consciously and subconsciously, and consequently, has the capacity to change the environment. Architecture can be designed as a ... -
Growth without Expansion: Utilizing Space We Already Have
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This Thesis will look into the underutilized and often overlooked land resource above built cities. The air space above our structures and roads is a frontier that rarely is tapped into. In an attempt to counter urban ... -
In Search of Independence: Progression for Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) continue to affect a larger number of people as the medical world expands and broadens its definitions. This disorder currently touches the lives of millions of individuals, leading to an ... -
Mayo Gardens
(2014)This thesis is an urban design project hybridizing architecture and landscape architecture. The relationship between landscape architecture and architecture reveals three basic modes which will be studied: contrast, merger, ... -
Senseful design
(North Dakota State University, 2015)This thesis - senseful design - explores the relationship that our five senses have with architecture. Can a holistic design for our senses create a more meaningful experience with architecture? This question is answered ... -
Soundscape
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis will examine the role of sound in the architectural experience by asking how architecture can improve the standing of sound in the designed environment. Possible solutions are subsequently explored through the ... -
The Synthesis of Balance: Conscious Design Based on the Lived Experience
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Architecture become harmonious when it is experienced as a triad of the lived reality, the perceived experience, and the impact it has on the memory of the soul. The physical reality of the built environment can highly ...