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Wayfinding in Virtual Reality: Wayfinding Through the Lens of Virtual Reality in Videogame Design
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
This thesis, Virtual Architecture: application of architectural design within the realm of video
games and virtual realities, examines and challenges how architecture is viewed in a simulated setting
by its users as ...
Echo: Elemental Architecture as a Method of Cleansing Freshwater in the Wake of Industrialization
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Existing as a force powerful enough to shape the face of the earth, yet delicate enough to sustain the life within our bodies, water is an element with which humans have
continuously sought balance. Water has eternally ...
Nexus: Creating Necessary Bonds Through Communal Living
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
The main topic of this this thesis is community based public housing, meaning that this project focuses on the communal aspects of public housing and how they can be incorporated into a building in order to create a more ...
Destined: The Evolution of airports through futuristic adaptation.
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Throughout time, humans have considered ourselves nomads, moving from place to place. We seek new horizons of perception, confined only by the bonds of gravity holding us to the face of the earth. Recently, we have stretched ...
The Redesign of Lakeshore Architecture: A Mixed Use Approach to a Single Use Idea
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Boathouses are currently banned in Minnesota do to their effect on our lakeshores, but this may not be the right solution to the issues they face. Just because something is outlawed does not mean that it is entirely bad, ...
Listen: A Sensory Experience
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
This thesis project uses interpretive and evaluative research methods to examine how best to bring two social circles together through intentional design, education, and immersion. The project is a design proposal for a ...
The Damages of Demolition
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
The goal of this thesis is to compare the effects of restoring a historic building versus the process of demolition and new construction for the same typology. By quantifying the embodied energy put into the historic ...
Horizons - Bridging the Finite and Infinite to Rekindle Mankind's Cosmic Affinity
(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 Recovery of St. James: The Journey to Wholeness for the Broken and Addicted
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
In the City of Butte, Montana, a rough and economically
depressed area, the first hospital of the region now sits in
ruin. The Old St. James Hospital will be taken from its current damaged state and transformed into a ...
Gestalt: A High School of Individuals Within a Whole
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
How will this design of a high school be different than any other high school in America? Within this school, each student will not come out like a manufactured replica of a utopian society. Instead, students find their ...