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Urban Stadia: Integrating Stadium Design with Mixed-Use Building Tactics to Rejuvenate an Urban Neighborhood
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Sporting stadiums impact the socio-economic capabilities in all of the areas in which they exist. Some have a good impact, they are able to fully integrate into the urban environment and benefit the area through areas such ...
Adapting an icon : adaptive reuse of downtown movie theaters
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Downtown theaters serve as landmarks for many communities across our region because of their unique design features. Elaborate auditoriums, decorated facades, and flashy, grand marquees are all iconic characteristics of ...
Cultivate: A Vertical Solution
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
This thesis titled “Cultivate: a Vertical Solution” will address the question, “How can architects stop suburban sprawl?” The typology of this project will be a 535,234 sqft high-rise mixed-use vertical farm in Brooklyn ...
Plug it in: A perpetual living system
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
Plug it in explores the question -- are the principles and guidelines of modularity sufficient to accommodate a community and yield a city. The problem will be expressed by the design of a mixed-use potential building with ...
Dreaming and Perceiving: An Approach to Dwelling in the City
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This thesis aims to answer the question; how can we slow down our perception of city living to create an appropriate setting that reinterprets aspects of community living into an urban setting? The typology is a mixed use ...
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, ...
Building as Bridge: Re-imagining Sustainable Living Through Symphonic Design
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
For German Philosopher, Martin Heidegger, a bridge is a manifestation of the fourfold—Earth, Sky, Divinities, and Mortals—which is at the root of all dwelling. He believed that preserving this fourfold is how we dwell in ...
Unstitch: Saving an Urban Fabric
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Shopping malls were designed to be communal spaces that mimicked town squares, where one could shop, socialize, and feel connected. The architect intended for them to be dense, to promote walkability, and have mixed-uses ...
St. Michael Speedway & Resort
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Raceways are uncommonly thought of as a public amenity and even more uncommonly thought of as a public health solution. Although this may be an incorrect implication. For instance, race tracks could serve as an outlet for ...
Climate Refuge: Thermal Comfort in Urban Micro Climates
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
This study addresses two major issues by responding to the significant decline in retail
buildings including enclosed shopping malls and improving density, livability and human
comfort in communities welcoming climate ...