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MindSet
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Society utilizes space as a tool to distance its most challenging and difficult citizens. In examining the question, “How can architecture influence the re-establishment of psychiatric stability in the mentally ill?”, the ...
Reinventing the American Dream: Saving the Suburbs
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This thesis examines the future of suburban environments and tactics for creating a more feasible suburban community through modifications of the existing elements of the site. The suburban environment may be revitalized ...
Emergent Urbanism: Architectural Place-Making in Response to A Minnesota High Speed Train Network
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
The way existing cities are set up and built is unsustainable, and risky. The bulk of new growth is occurring on the fringe of cities, where the streets and buildings have been designed for the automobile as the primary ...
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 ...
Longevtiy: Urban Retirement Living
(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 ...
Sustainable Connections: A Comprehensive Design of a Energy-Efficient Convention Center
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Sustainable Connections: A Comprehensive Design of a Energy-Efficient Convention Center is a design thesis focused on the issue how can adaptive sustainable methods and technologies be applied to a convention center to ...
Waiting for Ruin
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This Thesis, Waiting for Ruin, is an examination of how adaptive reuse projects can become an intermediary for overlapping contemporary and historic architecture. Adaptive reuse can
be used to revitalize historic but ...
Social Adaptation: Changing the Built Environment
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Social Adaptation examines ways in which a building can adequately respond to the advancement of computing technology and social media dominance. Overwhelming access to computing technology and social media not only changes ...
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 ...
Fostering Responsible Behavior
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Educated children must comprehend what their duties towards the environment are and start fostering responsible behavior seriously. If children go to school with means to learn science, literature, etc. they might as well ...