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Re-imagining RFK: Using DC's Captive Audience as a Revenue-Driven Incentive for a Privately-Funded Stadium
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
NFL stadiums are expensive, consume tremendous amounts of land and materials, and oftentimes require a significant amount of taxpayer funding. Additionally, outside of the ten to twelve football games held per year, ...
Harmony & Design: Representing Music in Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
The ability to play an instrument has been proven through numerous studies to improve executive functions and set students up for academic and future workplace success (Nadine Gaab, Ph.D.) however many students find music ...
Welcome Strangers: Designing a Sense of Belonging
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
As people from cultures around the world come to the United States to resettle they are faced with many difficulties, one of them being the sense of belonging. Starting the process of integration, immigrants are faced with ...
Flight: Reducing the Environmental Impact of Air Travel while Incorporating Nature within Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
How can an airport be designed to be sustainable, highly efficient, economical and a destination for people to travel to? Often an airport is the first thing people see when traveling to a new place, and all too often the ...
Mid-America Republic: A New Platform for Idea Sharing
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Civic Architecture’s intent is to bring the people of its city together for common interests. Today, cities are growing at such an exponential rate that Civic Architecture is often overlooked. Many public buildings built ...
̶d̶̶i̶̶s̶ Abled: A Salutogenic Approach to Design for the Enhancement of the ADA Design Standards in the Built Environment for the Positive Impact on Mental Health of its Inhabitants
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Physical and mental health encompass the overall well-being of a person. However, people seem to immediately observe the physical health of others in society while the concept of “mental health” is left unspoken. The very ...
The Gathering Garden: Bringing Warmth to Fargo's Frigid Winters
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Fargo’s rapidly improving downtown community life has one large, seven-month-long problem: winter. During the frigid winter, the public life of Fargo’s downtown comes to a halt. Thus, this research began with the goal of ...
Building the Nest: Designing for Veteran Healing
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
The Eagle's Healing Nest, located in Sauk Centre, MN, serves as a refuge for veterans and active duty members where they receive the support and assistance they need. Coming from all over the country, veterans migrate to ...
Architecture and the Literary Imagination: T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land Reinterpreted as Reading and Pedagogical Space
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
"And I will show you something different from either / Your shadow at morning striding behind you / Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you" (The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot). How can architecture, together with poetic ...
Healing and Gathering Centers
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
This thesis proposes to create a place of sanctuary and gathering for Native American individuals and communities - a place for memorial, healing, and prayer concerning loss and/or trauma as well as a hearth for families ...