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Algorithmic Design and Architectural Machines
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
What is our relationship with technology? As designers, we sit on the precipice between the abstract and the alien; between meaningful imagination and reductive otherness. With the permeation of algorithmic software in the ...
Inbetween: Life, Loss, and Healing within Architectural Space
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Our relationship with loss is something that has dwindled overtime due to the lack of representation of death within our modern society. At the same time, I believe that our healthcare facilities have also played a part ...
A New Anoka: A Suburban Infill Project
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
The purpose of this thesis is to study a pocket of land along an existing train line in Anoka, MN. It is a pocket of land that was not developed due to its zoning for industrial use. The adjacent land has been developed ...
Bridge: A Library as Interconnection for Culture and Function
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
My thesis is focused on creating an opportunity for the exchange and connection between individuals, cultures, communities, and knowledge we gain from one another. Located in the Fargo-Moorhead area, the two cities have a ...
Through the Other: The Social Impact of Architecture and Recognition of the Other
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
The United States of America was established on July 4th, 1776. That day marked the birth of a nation of immigrants. It was through the hard work and dedication of those immigrants and their descendants that this became ...
The Depth of Rivers and the Restorative Power of the Fragment: Architecture as Fluid Filmic Narrative
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
In 1948, Ralph Ellison wrote an article about the experience of living in Harlem and
explained a common feeling of placelessness and uncertainty of self. This placelessness
persists today as the neighborhood undergoes ...
Adaptive Architectural Value Engineering: A Study of Influencing Factors
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
A study to define value, and define it as a critical variable in domestic residential design and construction, by the use of evaluation of adaptive symbolic models using designer controlled endogenous and external exogenous ...
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 ...
Here in the City: Architecture of Lost Spaces
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Can lost space be revitalized to promote the culture of the city? In every city lost space resides. These are slivers and awkward portions of space where no traditional use works. Often found in between buildings, and under ...
Enhanced Assisted Living: An Architectural Strategy to Reduce the Negative Effects for Society Caused by Aging Population
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Due to the emergence of large numbers of elderly people as the Baby Boomer generation ages and the life span extended, an aging population has become a serious issue for modern society with far-reaching economic and ...