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Architecture as Prosthesis: A Cultural Reimagination of Disability on Boston Harbor
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
How does architecture approach disability? Might this play a role in forming our
cultural beliefs? Increasingly specialized attitudes of the modern era, critiqued by
Hans-Georg Gadamer, move us to approach disability ...
Transcultural Education: Building Understanding through Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Architecture has the innate ability to control the environment in which it creates, so it presents itself as a tool for creating desired outcomes. This desired outcome is the change of social climate through Transcultural ...
The Psyche of a Building: An Exploration of how Buildings Relate to the Human Psyche Through a Renovated Farmstead
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Farmsteads have been steady reminders of how this country got its start. Hard work,
family, faith, and community were all aspects of farm life. Each home was built with the
help of neighbors, children learned how to do ...
Enviro-Braille: A Transcribed Language of Architectural Elements
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Architecture has an immense effect
on our perception of reality. The way
one gains understanding of their surroundings
depends heavily on stimulation
of senses. The pitfall of designers
is the consciousness paid to ...
Vanlife: Creating Community on the Road
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Van life is an ever-growing movement across North America and the rest of the world.
Driven by high costs of living, mundane desk jobs, poor quality of life, and the urge to
be free, thousands of people are packing up ...
On the Edge of Empathy: Amplifying the Veteran's Voice
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
We live in a world of physical and conceptual edges that
guide and shape our lives, and challenge us every day
to choose whether to cross them or to remain within their
shepherding corrals. Often we forget that edges ...
Interweaving Generations: Enriching Elderly and Primary Care Through Integration
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
The goal of this project is to bring people together from
two different generations. I want to design a place
where two groups can come together and mutually
benefit from one another. A child’s mind is so amazing
because ...
Bringing the Rave out of the Cave
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
By examing the types of space raves inhabited,
from the anarchist grass-root orgins of
the urban undergrounds to the vast landscapes
of commodified festivals of today, I
question: what would the ideal 21st century
rave ...
Wellness Through Adaptive Reuse
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
The International Existing Building Code (IEBC) was first
created alongside the International Building Code (IBC)
in 1997 to address health and safety concerns in the built
environment based upon prescriptive and ...
Empty Spaces: Architecture Healing the Emptiness within Victims of Abuse and Sexual Exploitation
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Just as death is underrepresented in modern society, women who have been exploited in abuse, domestic violence, stalking, rape, and sex trafficking have
also become underrepresented. A voice needs to be given to these ...