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Designing Efficiently: A Focus on the User
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
Our built environment is plagued by ineffective design. Often we find we have lost sight of the purpose of our built environment as our needs and tasks have changed drastically over time. A fresh analysis of our needs and ...
Preserving our History
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
This project, Preserving our History, focuses on the integration of green design strategies, energy efficient design and historical preservation for the purpose of restoring neighborhoods within our city limits. Historic ...
Environments for Aging
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This thesis examines alternative living environments for the fast growing population of baby boomers heading into retirement. The main idea is to use sustainable design within a natural environment to stimulate the well ...
ReArrange: Making Space Transform
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
This thesis explores the question of how kinetic architecture can promote learning in the general public. The typology that is being examined is a kinetic laboratory. The Theoretical Premise /Unifying Idea guiding research ...
Permeable Layering
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
DESIGN WITH layering. The layering creates spaces that are safe, disconnected and protected from the outside. This is shown and felt through the creation of pathways and connections to spaces that are cut through the ...
Deaf Sight: A New Sound in Architecture : Architecture for the Deaf
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Parametric Animation
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
This project, Parametric Animation, aims to test the potential of parametric structures as an architectural design tool. Although this tool is not new in the architectural design community, the variety of its applications ...
Rural Decline:Preserving Community
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
Rural Decline: Preserving Community. This thesis will focus on the question “How can architecture aid in the preservation and revitalization of rural communities?” Architectural problem solving and community involvement ...
Developing a Dialectic
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
This project, titled Developing a Dialectic, began as an analysis of the tangible evidence of time within a built environment, specifically the changing paths on which we experience our cities and the objects and spaces ...
Assembling the Pieces
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
This thesis will research and examine the impact that a mental treatment center would have on the chronic mentally ill community by creating a diversion from incarceration and homelessness by offering the necessities of ...