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The Architectural Research Studio is a viable curricular offering in a professional, graduate, accredited curriculum in Architecture. It provides the benefits of boosting research productivity in a department, strengthening ties with architectural firms that have an alumni presence, providing career networking opportunities for graduate students, generating valuable intellectual property, fostering research careers, and adding to the knowledge base of the Architecture profession. The all-around benefits far outweigh the challenges that have to be overcome in offering this studio.
Recent Submissions
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Research Upon Airline Passenger Experience
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Aviation has a rich and long history. The industry has evolved increasingly over the year to accommodate technological advancement. However, along the way, the human part of it has been removed from the conversation. ... -
Efficacy of Modular Design in Healthcare
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Modular design has become an industry leading philosophy for the future of community-based health services. Modular applied as a design principle subdivides a construction system into independently fabricated units, ... -
Spatial Ability Reasoning: The Strengths and Weaknesses Between Virtual Reality and Paper Pencil Testing
(North Dakota State University, 2022)In the United States, many high schoolers are frustrated about sitting through boring classes and not understanding their classes. This research project aims to explore a potential solution to these problems through the ... -
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 ... -
Detention Surveillance: A Closer Look Into What Makes a Secure Prison
(North Dakota State University, 2022)This research will look into case studies to determine what types of floor plans have the best security and safety elements for a prison. By using simulation software, a conclusion can be made for which prison is the ... -
The Methodology of Calculating the Carbon Footprint of a Building
(North Dakota State University, 2022)The thesis research topic I chose is the methodology of calculating the carbon footprint of a building. I chose this topic because I care a lot about our environment and sustaining it. How can I take a site and not wipe ... -
Research of Sandy Hook Elementary, the New and Improved
(North Dakota State University, 2022)School safety has been a part of the political discussion all over the world about both large scale (a country) and small (a city). According to US News, for the school year 2020-2021 alone, there were a total of 93 schools ... -
The Investigation of EEG Responses for Design Tasks Using Traditional and Digital Tools
(North Dakota State University, 2022)With the emergence of computers and modern technology, the way professionals do architecture has drastically change over the recent decades and schools have been faced with the task of how they want to guide the next ... -
Overcoming: An Architectural Response: Study of Architectural Settings that Transition Individuals to Adulthood
(North Dakota State University, 2019)What role do architectural programs and architectural elements play in helping individuals overcome liminal conditions on the pathway to adulthood? This research report will frame student learning in a college environment ... -
Teens: Let's Give Them Some Space; An Architectural Exploration of Teenage Tragedies
(North Dakota State University, 2019)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 ... -
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 ... -
Redesigning the Passenger Experience in the Context of Commercial Aviation: Door to Door
(North Dakota State University, 2019)When addressing the topic of travel, a series of mixed emotions can rise up within us. Stemming from our experience from previous trips, we may choose to see the entire trip as a positive or negative based upon a single element: ... -
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 ... -
Psychology & Design: The Biophysical Connection between Architectural Design and Psychological Health
(North Dakota State University, 2019)This purpose of this thesis is to emphasize the importance of the biophysical connection between the human psyche and the environment. In theory, these elements can coexist to manipulate the relationship between design ... -
Wellness Through Adaptive Reuse: Developing a Workflow to Determine the Most Beneficial Adaptive Reuse Strategies
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Architecture in the United States is defined by its variety of architectural styles over its lifespan as well as its innovation. The rapid expansion of our nation and its economy has led to urban sprawl and an attitude ... -
Designing for Outsiders: Understanding the Effects of Indended and Unintended Design
(North Dakota State University, 2019)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 ... -
Chromolume: A Study of How Colored Lights Inform Natural Healing Practices Through Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2019)The built environments we occupy regularly have a strong and lasting impact on our mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health. This leads to the question of: What role can architecture play in facilitating healing ... -
Intentional Community: Architecture Can Form Community for Vanlifers
(North Dakota State University, 2019)What is the potential of community-based infrastructure for vanlifers? Vanlife is an ever-growing movement across North America and the rest of the world. Driven by high costs of living, mundane desk jobs, poor quality of ... -
The Shape of a Home: Using Shape Grammar to Design a Single-Family Residence
(North Dakota State University, 2019)The goal of this research project was to study the application of shape grammar in order to investigate its potential use as a form of computer aided software as an alternative to the ever so popular Building Information ... -
A Study of the Ideal Acoustical/Spatial Environment for Rave/EDM Performance Spaces
(North Dakota State University, 2019)By examining the types of space raves inhabited, from the predominate 90s anarchist grass-root origins of the urban undergrounds to today's contemporary youth in vast landscapes of com-modified festivals and clubs, as well ...
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