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Urban Thaw: Encouraging Human Connection within a Winter City
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
What makes urban life possible is human interaction. Without it, cities would not thrive. It has become increasingly easier for residents of cities to stay indoors and neglect the environment and people around them. In ...
Resilience To Our Decaying Urban Infrastructure
(2011)
In what ways can environmentally functioning plants reverse the decay of urban infrastructure and reveal the lack of visibility in areas that are left abandoned, unrecognized and unnoticed? The project typology in this ...
Social Corridors
(2011)
Social Corridors will demonstrate that recreational corridors
in communities will increase the social and economic values to
residents of a community. The project explores all the fundamental aspects of a passive ...
Solvay Coke and Gas
(2011)
This project is meant to explore the idea of how Vacant heavy industrial zones can have different uses than existing industrial sites across America. The idea is to use sustainable design to minimize the polution rate, ...
Resilience: Cooperation of Social and Ecological Systems
(2011)
Within recent years there has been a monumental awareness put towards environmental sustainability and resilience in response to the effects of humankind's continued imposition on existent ecological processes. Whether ...
Arcology
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Arcology is an approximately 30,000 square foot transit center located within the Ford Site redevelopment plan in St. Paul, MN. The core concept of the project lies in its incorporation of algae, a diverse group of water-based ...
Reed Street Yards - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
(2011)
This project is meant to explore the idea of low carbon development in cities post global peak oil. Milwaukee, like many other Rust Belt cities across the United States, has passed its industrial peak and today is left ...
Sustainable Lakeshore Development : Integrating Lakeshore Ecosystems into the Urban Environment
(2011)
This project is meant to explore sustainable lakeshore design ideas within private and public community property that share a common water body resource. A community surrounding a water body forms a social-ecological ...
Sustainable Growth and Redevelopment of Wadena: Evoking a Meaningful Change
(2011)
The general public often delude themselves into thinking that the landscapes we design are implicitly sustainable, though they frequently are not. We, as designers, must make known, and take responsibility for, the ...
Developing a Framework for Sustainable Design/Build/Own Buildings
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
The objective of the research paper was to investigate the development of a
workable framework for Sustainable Design/Build/Own buildings. Research from case
studies, a literature review, and a design exercise was completed ...