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Urban Identity : Frogtown Finds Itself
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
Our cities are too often disconnected. They are disconnected in the sense of a failure to relate neighborhoods and districts to each other. This is especially true for cities which lack effective public transportation. ...
Rethinking Shangri-La : Revival of the sustainable courtyard dwellings
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
While technology and globalization continue to prevail in every aspect of the world, the scope for the sustenance of regional culture is rapidly disappearing. Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal, hasn’t been left behind ...
Delight in Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This project explores delight in buildings and how we experience them. It states that the personality of a building as exhibited in individual traits is what we find delight in, as humans tend to personify things they ...
Adaptable Spaces for Changing Paces : Design for Demographic Shifts
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
The built environment is currently designed with (only) the present demographic profile in mind. Designing in this manner
fails to prepare for changes in demographic profiles and creates an obstacle for users when the ...
chain reaction
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This chain reaction thesis will be created by the necessity of human interaction. It is both an examination of human connection as well as spatial configurations. This will show how human connections are crucial to growth ...
Beauty of Becoming : Architecture as a Teleology
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This thesis is an attempt to clearly and simply recourse the history and the activity of architecture to the fundamental "natural order" with which one comprehends the world, and which forms the individual's enduring ...
Adaptable Architecture : architecture that changes through time
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
Just as living things grow and adapt, so should the things we create. In this juxtaposition lays the ability to propel our creations into a cyclical lifestyle of rebirth through functionality. Spatial experiences are ...
Rebuilding the Human Experience
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This thesis will create a natural food co-op in a town devastated by natural disaster. The design of this building will utilize a site with an existing structural failure in Greensburg, Kansas, left behind after the ...
Test of Time
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This thesis is a study of how the use of recycled materials can express the passage of time within a society or culture. The building typology for the execution of this idea is a historical museum. The Theoretical ...
Ensemble : The Art of Inspiration
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This thesis will speak to the
integration of the performing arts and visual arts and architecture. Architecture should inevitably be integral with the contents within.
Consequently the content within the structure ...