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Relevant Antiquity : Catalyzing Tourism with Architectural Tradition
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This thesis explores the question of how local architectural traditions affect tourism. The typology for the exploration of this problem is a convention center/hotel in a building complex comprised of adaptive re-use and ...
Boom Abodes : Designing for the Transition
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
With recent technological advances in oil extraction, communities across the Midwest are being hit by an oil boom. With a rapid growth of migrant workers flooding in to rural counties, economic strain and housing shortages ...
Sensitive Significance
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This thesis studies the question of how the quality of the built environment affects all aspects of well-being in its users. The topic will be explored through mixed method research with an emphasis on the relationships ...
Dwelling up|on the Dock
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This thesis project will explore the aspects of dwellings that can contribute to making the floor plan more efficient through flexibility and adaptation to the users and environment.
Energy of Water : An Empirical Study into the Human Connection to Water
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This book is an exploration into how our thoughts and emotions can change our built environment. It will focus on water as the bridge connecting our experiences with our physical environment. By focusing on our earth’s ...
Urban Resurrection
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
Communities are becoming increasingly aware that current trends of expansive growth are not sustainable. Infill development, or the development of vacant or under-utilized sites within urban areas, can be an alternative ...
Children of the Neon Mirage: Proximity, Duration and Homunculi Space
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This thesis seeks to investigate the relationship of the philosophical ideas of proximity and duration as they relate to architectural expression and representation. In design, linguistic and visual expression and their ...
Educative Junction
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
Educative Junction: A new model for public high school education. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. To inspire a greater value of mandatory public education in the eyes of students, a school built to accommodate that education ...
Developing Architectural Methods through Local Built Heritage: a Performing Arts Center in Torres, Brasil.
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Southern Brazilian vernacular building methods contain knowledge that is unique to that particular area of the world. With the implementation of modern techniques and the usage of intuitive design processes, a designer can ...
Material interactions - a center for recombinant waste
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Issues relating to solid waste management and human interaction thrive as a current and future challenge for human existence. Due to the abundance of waste produced within our community, utilizing our advancements in new ...