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    • Acknowledging the Tides through the Renewable Energy of the Moon 

      Wolf, Drew (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      A restructure of energy generation and architectures ability to transform power plants into a beacon of culture. This project seeks to reawaken a lost perspective of nature through the acknowledgment of the entwined ...
    • Architectural Asset Development 

      Kinney, Dane (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      This thesis attempts to elucidate the connection between architecture and how well students perform academically and socially based on how much pleasure they attain from the architecture of their high school campus. The ...
    • Architecture for Community: Redefining Social Architecture 

      Foobalan, Malini (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      This thesis investigates the question: can architecture create a sense of place and dignity amongst the homeless community? The typology for examination of this problem will be a hybrid of a transitional housing facility, ...
    • The Architecture of Stimmung 

      Brandt, Nicholas (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      This thesis examines the environment, atmosphere and experience of patients who have undergone treatment for or who have been affected by cancer. The design is inspired by Martin Heidegger's concept of “Stimmung” (mood, ...
    • Audience of strangers : exploring theatrical public space in the design of a rail station 

      Augustine, Shelby (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      Through fiction, drama, and decorum this thesis explores architecture’s ability to create a more meaningful relationship to the public realm; facilitating interactions between strangers through the design of a rail station ...
    • Community (Make) Shift: Bringing urban communities together through the activation of underutilized spaces with social programming in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. 

      Rouillard, Catherine (2017)
      In current times society is gravitating towards urban communities. Although cities have higher amounts of people per proximity in these areas, it does not stop people from feeling lonely. Loneliness is defined as the ...
    • Conspicuous hydrology: The untapped potential of stormwater 

      DuChene, Courtney (2013)
      Freshwater only represents 1% of the total water supply on Earth and is an essential entity for life to exist. Urban development has lead to the pollution and degradation of this essential element. Due to the existing ...
    • Design for Well-Being: Architecture to Reduce Health Inequity 

      Falk, Paige (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      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 ...
    • Designing for the Decades 

      Baierl, Samantha (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      This thesis explores how the physical environment, through spaces and their connections, can positively impact the overall wellness and productivity of senior citizens. This thesis aims to prove the level of engagement ...
    • Emerging Public: The Public Library's Role in Building Community 

      Braaksma, Nicholas (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      How can architecture create context and facilitate understanding of the information presented in public libraries through both physical and digital media to encourage community engagement? This thesis analyzes the architectural ...
    • Haven + Nomad40 

      Holzer, Cindy (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      The modern day individual has lost connection with their environment by putting up a metaphorical and literal wall. By re-structuring the way in which we design vertical communities we have the potential to develop a system ...
    • Horizons - Bridging the Finite and Infinite to Rekindle Mankind's Cosmic Affinity 

      Warner, Aaron (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      Since its dawn, mankind’s revolutionary inventions have drastically influenced culture, redfining standing standards and practices for the sake of progress. The 21st century is just beginning, with many major technological ...
    • The Human Senses: Designing Beyond Intuition 

      Lipatan, April (2013)
      This thesis project will explore how multi-sensory experiences can be merged with landscape architecture as a supplement to communicate the meaning of place. The problem of landscape architects not fully understanding the ...
    • Infilling the Aging: A Holistic Approach to Urban Care Environments 

      Kuelbs, Peter (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      “Infilling the Aging: A Holistic Approach to Care Environments” adresses the need for an improved connection between family, community, and those in care-based living. It addresses this issue by questioning the difference ...
    • Longevtiy: Urban Retirement Living 

      Kolpack, Sara (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis, Longevity, studies the ability to create a place to dwell that improves the quality, longevity, and ability to heal those that inhabit its walls all the while residing within and urban setting. The typology ...
    • Minimalism, Technology and Opportunity: Developing a New Olympic Prototype 

      Wimaladharma, Ishanka (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      It is very important as designers to make design decisions that not only effect and create results for the immediate, current situation at hand, but it is also our responsibility to create and design with the intention of ...
    • Redesigning the Passenger Experience Within the Context of Commercial Aviation: Door to Door 

      Musel, Mitchell (North Dakota State University, 2020)
      When addressing the topic of travel, a series of mixed emotions can rise up within us. Stemming from our experience from previous trips, we may choose to see the entire trip as a positive or negative based upon a single ...
    • Resiliency: Creating necessary connection in an unstable environment 

      Harvey, Noah (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      This is a study of how connections are made between people in an extreme time of need and also what happens to those connections when they are not immediately in use. It is also a study on the resiliency and sustainability ...
    • The Salmon Run: A Restoration & Recreation Plan for the Valley Creek Watershed in Port Angeles, WA 

      Nyquist, Ellie (2016)
      This thesis studies the life cycle needs of salmon and asks the question, how can we restore a river to be viable for salmon habitat as well as promote positive human interaction? As an indicator species, salmon are ...
    • Seattle's Urban Water 

      Kroll, Zerek (2012)
      The issue of stormwater runoff is a major threat to the water supply of Seattle, Washington. Continual rain and great expanses of impervious surfaces cause contamination and pollution to riddle the waters of the Puget ...