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Sustainability of Time
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
The Government is building a storage facility at Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert, which is where the dormitory complex would need to be as well. This is as structure that will have a program and life span of at least ...
Designing for a New Way of Living
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
This graduate thesis explores the ideas and exploration of creating architecture as an educational instrument that will inform its occupants about a new, more environmentally-friendly way of living. The design itself becomes ...
A Sustainable Living Solution For Southern Minnesota
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
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This thesis discusses the possibility and feasibility of designing sustainably in harsh climatological extremes. It more specifically covers the typology of single family residential dwellings, better known ...
Grand Coulee Living and Retail/ An Environmental Approach Towards Sustainable Living
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
Will there be a paradigm shift in the way people build and live because of varying economic conditions? The building typology will be a sustainable mid-rise mixed use building. The world’s population currently and in the ...
Solid Rock Physical Rehabilitation Center
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
This thesis explores some possible answers to the question, “What is the correlation between physical, social, and emotional attributes?” The typology examined for this thesis is a physical rehabilitation facility. People’s ...
The Sustainable Middle School of Vancouver
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
There is a lack of awareness of what we are doing to our ecosystems and how we can reverse the trend of harmful practices that threaten our environment. Through education and observation, a more widespread movement of ...
Adaptive Architecture: Design for a Declining Global Population
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
In the face of a declining human population, our ability to plan for and adapt to future circumstances will be essential if we, as a global community, are to not only preserve our built environment, but also ensure its ...
Downtown Development: A Lifestyle Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
This thesis provides some answers to the question: how can the implementation by architects of minimal energy consumption and better material utilization in design begin to stop the wasteful ways so prevalent in our current ...
EOS 1: Evolution of Sustainability
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
Human interaction is a real need fulfilled by simple communication, verbal or non verbal.
Individualism and congregation are part of everyday settings. The built environment has a large influence on how and when these ...
Elements of the Office Workspace
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
When examining office buildings in the world today, it is proper to look deeper at the correlation between productivity and the environments in which people work. In analyzing the office spaces, studies have shown that ...