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Mending the Gap: Taking Advantage of Missed Opportunities Through Bridge Design
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Can a bridge be more than just a passageway to get from one side of a natural feature to another? Can different typologies be integrated into bridge design to create more of a destination than just a passage? Bridges ...
Radiant Future: Dwelling, Pruitt Igoe, and the Imprint of Communist Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
This project seeks to solve the issue of public housing that America is facing in the
present day. This housing sector is in crisis, and needs a renewed emphasis on quality
and regard for human dignity, as well as an ...
Thinking Ahead: Re-Imagining Higher Education through Active Learning and Adaptive Space
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
An analytical re-imagining of the higher educational model through architecture has the ability to redefine the fundamentals of collegiate study. Traditional higher education pedagogies impede on meaningful education and ...
Bridging the Gap: Adaptive Reuse of an Intergenerational Learning Center
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
This design thesis adaptively reuses the former St. Louis County Jail to house an independent living facility and a preschool that incorporates an Intergenerational Learning Center, located in the Downtown Waterfront ...
Modular Montessori: Educating Towards Ecological Sustainability
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
The world has experienced rapid change in the last
fifty years. Though most change can be counted
as good, there has been a fair amount of negative
changes happening that continue to be major issues
today. Issues such ...
Dignity and Design: Architecture for the Vision and Hearing Impaired
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
This thesis is aiming to design better for those with hearing or sight loss. Since these are sensory disabilities they directly affect the way in which people experience architecture. With the numbers rising of people ...
Learning from Our Past: Catching Dreams
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Youth Centers around America are dedicated to improve the health, safety and communication of the overall youth population. Throughout the United States of America, there are several organizations that focus on the youth. ...
TriPeaks Montessori
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Blending architecture with landscape is not a new feature in design. For the Montessori schooling system, directly relating the natural world into the school’s methods of teaching is crucial for the development of the ...
Serene Senescence: Modular Aging in Place in Fargo, North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
As the population of baby boomers reaches retirement age, the
question of how to house and properly care for this generation
comes to mind. Many of the smaller living spaces geared toward
the senior population are ...
A Threshold for the Homeless: Between the Smooth and the Striated
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
In today’s society the homeless are often marginalized because they do not fit the normalized idea of sedentary dwelling in post-industrial societies. This leads to a misunderstanding of the motivations and personal values ...