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Adaptable Architecture: Architecture That Responds to Changing Needs
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This thesis explores the use of adaptable architecture and its ability to change to diverse program and user needs. By using flexible and kinetic components in the design of a performing arts center, it can expand the ...
Engineering The Digital Workplace: The Architecture of Changing Social Interaction
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
“Engineering the Digital Workplace” explores how meaningful design can inform, and be informed by, social interaction in an increasingly connected and less private society.
The thesis proposes to create a model for how ...
[re]DUX : adaptive architecture, [re]use & mixed use
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This thesis examines the implications a building’s history/past has on its future development. It is guided by
the idea that some structures are
more capable than others in making
the transition from one function ...
Rural Transitions: A Supplemental Community
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
The thesis, Rural Transitions, investigates the problem that has become a growing trend as more people move from rural, agricultural areas into suburban or city life. Many of the existing country dwellers are no longer ...
A Place for lace
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This thesis explores the question, “How can the digital, mechanized world of today, help keep the tradition of handcrafted Belgian lace alive?” The typology for the examination of this problem is a museum/learning center ...
Regeneration Through Connection
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
Citing the world’s current rate of natural resource use, there
will be little left of the world that is natural within a generation. The current cycle of environmental degradation is so extreme that the natural environment ...
Life Skills Center
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
This thesis revolves around the concept of inspiring and reviving the youth and communities of Phillips and Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis, Minnesota, through a Life Skills Center that will promote growth and development. ...
Restore: Veteran support facility
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
This thesis project, titled Restore, critically analyzes how an architectural experience can have psychological healing effects on service members and their families who have been affected by the repercussions of war and ...
The Shoppes on Main: Developing a Sense of Place
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
This thesis researches and investigates the effect architectural space brings to a sense of place within an urban environment. Located on Main Avenue and 18th Street in Fargo, The Shoppes on Main: Developing a Sense of ...
Responsive Frameworks: Polyfunctional space for dynamic stimulus
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
This thesis titled “Resonsive Frameworks: Polyfunctional space for dynamic stimulus” investigates the question, “how does a building respond to dynamic stimulus?” Creating polyfunctional space through the use of kinetic ...