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Act for Children: A Study of How Architecture Can Foster Development During the Stages of Early Childhood
(North Dakota State University, 2017)What role does architecture play in fostering the stages of early childhood development? The first five years of a child's life are the most crucial years of their developmental process as they grow not only physically but ... -
Adapting Green: A Step by Step Methodology for Integrating LEED and WELL Standards Into Adaptive Reuse Projects
(North Dakota State University, 2022)LEED is the most widely used green building system in the world. LEED provides tools that clearly lay out the sustainable criteria for a building project. LEED is being implemented more and more every day, as is shown by ... -
Adaptive Architectural Value Engineering: Methods
(North Dakota State University, 2017)To develop an architectural design with an optimal solution, an understanding of the mechanics of design process becomes important. In 'Design by Optimization in architecture, Building, and Construction', architectural ... -
Algorithms for Calculating a Building’s Waste
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This paper examines the amount of waste or unutilized material a particular design will produce. This is being analyzed by the author through the investigation and use of multiple software systems. The ideal intent is the ... -
Architectural Artefact
(2011)Recognizing that the Western Tradition of Architecture has been perpetuated through the passing on of stories through the creation of primarily symbolic artefacts, this studio emphasizes students’ ability to imagine, work, ... -
Architectural Settings Which Facilitate Transcultural Understanding
(North Dakota State University, 2019)To understand how a space can promote trans-cultural understanding, it is imperative to understand transculturalism. It is defined as seeing one's self in the other (Cuccioletta, 2002). This means finding aspects of, or ... -
Architectural Sign Language: Architecture as a Language Communicated Through Signs
(North Dakota State University, 2019)American Sign Language (ASL) is not transparent; one cannot understand it until one learns it. It takes many years of study and interactions with people who use it daily to be able to properly learn the language. The ... -
Architecture experienced through an Artefact
(2011)Recognizing that the Western Tradition of Architecture has been perpetuated through the passing on of stories through the creation of primarily symbolic artefacts, this studio emphasizes students’ ability to imagine, work, ... -
Architecture experienced through an Artefact
(2012)Recognizing that the Western Tradition of Architecture has been perpetuated through the passing on of stories through the creation of primarily symbolic artefacts, this studio emphasizes students’ ability to imagine, work, ... -
Architecture for the Third Place: How design Can Promote Third-Place Activities in an Indoor, Urban, Midwestern Context
(North Dakota State University, 2018)This research began with the goal of designing an ideal indoor public space for Fargo, North Dakota's frigid winters. To understand the best design for the proposed public space, a broader question is posed: How can ... -
Artefact
(2012)Recognizing that the Western Tradition of Architecture has been perpetuated through the passing on of stories through the creation of primarily symbolic artefacts, this studio emphasizes students’ ability to imagine, work, ... -
Artefact
(2011)Recognizing that the Western Tradition of Architecture has been perpetuated through the passing on of stories through the creation of primarily symbolic artefacts, this studio emphasizes students’ ability to imagine, work, ... -
The Beauty of the Past
(North Dakota State University, 2015)An attraction to the past is a natural interest in people, we are always interested I where we came from in the hopes to see where we are going. Along with this interest of the past there is a similar interest to the ruins ... -
Beginning of Life Center
(2011)Students in this studio were asked to study the planning principles of a 1960’s “new town” that was proposed for west-central Minnesota, the Minnesota Experimental City(MXC). They were then asked to imagine a new or hybrid ... -
The Bells of Balangiga: A Tale of Missed Opportunity
(North Dakota State University, 2016)The Philippine-American War broke out in 1899 hard on the heels of the Spanish American War. Although the conflict began as conventional warfare, American troops unexpectedly found themselves engaged in a guerilla war. ... -
Border Catalog: Integrated Sense of Border
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Despite the popularity of border issues in today's media, the spatial organization which borders create remain unrecognized. This paper discusses the relationship between architecture and borders through a catalog which ... -
Breasts and the West: Breast Size, Bad Girls, and the Japanese Ideal
(North Dakota State University, 2012)My project is about the role of breasts in anime. Although the popular belief is that anime depicts a cultural obsession with large breasts, after watching years of anime, I noticed that there was a trope: only the bad ... -
Buddhist Temple
(2012)This project is a Buddhist temple focusing on various aspects of sustainability. Located in the Queens district of New York This temple provides a place of prayer for the immensely growing Buddhist population in the area. -
Building on Water: Studying the Effects of Buoyancy on Architectural Forms
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Our planet is 71% water and 29% land. That land is filling up quick and is going to look a lot smaller for the coming generations. With an ever-growing world population, that is already at almost 7.5 Billion people, we ...