• Wellness Through Adaptive Reuse 

  Kramer, Jared (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  The International Existing Building Code (IEBC) was first created alongside the International Building Code (IBC) in 1997 to address health and safety concerns in the built environment based upon prescriptive and ...

• Transcending Borders 

  Johnson, Helen (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  Despite the popularity of border issues in today’s media, the spatial transformation, which borders create remain unrecognized. The Thesis discusses the relationship between architecture and borders. Borders are much ...

• Teens: Let's Give Them Some Space 

  Holzwarth, Haley (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  At a time when we can find numerous divisions between ourselves and the next person, there is one thing that every adult has in common: we were once a teenager. Like any experience, being a teenager comes with moments ...

• Reinvigorating a Conversation About Nature Through Architecture: Mitigating Climate Change and Ecological Disaster 

  Menden, Grant (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  Because the perception of Nature has shifted over the course of human civilization - from a living “Thou” to an externalized “It” - this project seeks to reinvigorate a more essential interaction with the natural environment. ...

• A New Generation2: The Improper Appropriation of the Modern Housing Market in Today’s Society, Taking a Look at a New Generation’s Necessities and Ambitions 

  Vonasek, Dane (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  In many cities throughout the USA, recent graduates have to deal with increasing rent prices with a very limited income. Standard apartment buildings and other types of dwellings are fairly standard with space and cost. ...

• The Evolution of Wonder Through History: Reopening the Realm in Seven Mythic Experiments of Technological Interconnection 

  Marso, Daniel J. (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  As Henri Frankfort suggests, the sense of interconnection between ancient people, nature, and the cosmos, was perceived as a living “Thou”. As humanity has advanced this emphasis on interconnection has faded from something ...

• Designing for Outsiders: Building a Sustainble Future for Keaau 

  Meyer, Christina (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  How tolerant are we of people outside our community? Our ingrained instincts drive us as humans to seek positive interactions, to feel accepted and appreciated, to find purpose to help us thrive as individuals and as a ...

• Using Poetic Language to Restore the American Metropolis by Examining the Difference Between What is Real and Imaginary 

  Nelson, Bradley (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  Public interaction over the years has changed in many ways. Dating back to ancient roman civilization, the public life had been important to the typical man. Spreading and sharing of ideas, exchange of goods, questioning ...

• Architectural Sign Language 

  Danielson, Anna (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  American Sign Language is not transparent, one cannot understand it until ones learn is. It takes many years of study and interaction with people who use it to be able to properly learn a language. As a student who ...

• Climate Refuge: Thermal Comfort in Urban Micro Climates 

  Horvath, Nathaniel (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  This study addresses two major issues by responding to the significant decline in retail buildings including enclosed shopping malls and improving density, livability and human comfort in communities welcoming climate ...

• From Brownfield to Permaculture City: Converting a Brownfield Site by Creating a New Community Through Increased Density and Sustainable Permaculture. 

  Pierce, Kaylee (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  Sustainable, permaculture living is a recurring trend in residential design. Society is becoming more aware of the impact humans have on the environment, along with learning ways to minimize an ecological footprint while ...

• Fargo: Growing Upward: A Neon Living Wall 

  Kumpula, Benjamin (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  There is an emotional connection humans have with plants and the aesthetics of natural elements that can directly influence our mood, productivity, and overall happiness. Emotional factors can directly impact and change a ...

• Bismarck-Mandan Rail Bridge Park: Using Private-Public Infill to Create a Destination Waterfront Park in the City of Bismarck, North Dakota 

  Schmidt, Austin M. (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  This study focuses on the preservation of the Bismarck-Mandan rail bridge and surrounding 200-acre site as a catalyst to transform the waterfront of North Dakota’s capital city into a 21st-Century urban park. Announced ...

• Sustainable Framework for Lakeshore Communities 

  French, Ashlyn (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  This study explores the 9-mile-long shoreline, along with the 700 acres of water in Lake Mitchell. The City of Mitchell has 15,600 people surrounding the polluted lake in South Dakota. Lake Mitchell's water is toxic, so ...

• Re-contextualizing Past Technology for Affordable Living 

  Ormsby, Alexander (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  Today we have the luxury of hindsight; this allows for the truth of past actions to reveal itself to us. We can look back on our shared human history and recognize the repercussions of certain actions, and it is with ...

• Hospital Gardens & Therapeutic Spaces 

  Yokom, Alicia (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  The Great Plains Region in the United States has over 3,000 hospitals and clinics. Many lacking the outdoor amenities useful to individuals year-round. This study will focus on placing those amenities at the Sanford Medical ...

• Blessed Is She: Gender Critique Through Performativity and Portrayals of the Divine in Naomi Alderman’s The Power 

  Froslie, Alexandra Dawn (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  Naomi Alderman’s 2016 novel The Power details the events that occur after women develop the ability to produce an electrical current throughout their bodies. This new physical power allows a matriarchal power structure to ...

• Nongrievable Bodies: Sex Trafficking Subjects Embodied in Social Media Rhetoric 

  Campbell, Lindsay Jo (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  Every year thousands of women, men, and children are trafficked for sexual exploitation (sex trafficking) around the world. Legal, social, scholarly, and theoretical discourses all discuss sex trafficking, yet often times ...

• Gateway Centre - Minneapolis, Minnesota 

  Olschlager, Gordon A. (North Dakota State University, 1978)

• Designing for the Homeless 

  Bakke, Joseph (North Dakota State University, 2018)

  According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, psyche is defined as the soul, mind, or personality of a person or group (Hacker). I am researching the homeless population to better understand their psyche. I believe that If I ...

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