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Breach: Building Integrated Flood Protection, Addressing the Inadequate Response to the Flood of 1997 by the City of Grand Forks
(North Dakota State University, 2018)In response to The Flood of 1997, the city of Grand Forks, ND constructed a flood wall along the river. It protected the citizens from the seasonal floods but it was an inadequate solution. It created a physical, visual, ... -
Breaking Barriers by Preserving the Future: Fergus Falls Kirkbride
(North Dakota State University, 2023)The thought came to me over the Summer when I was visiting my hometown. There is a historical building called the Regional Treatment Center (RTC), and over the years, I have seen many attempts to repurpose it, but all ... -
Breaking Barriers: A Women's Retreat Center for Access, Agency, and Advocacy
(North Dakota State University, 2023)It is frightening being a woman in today’s society, as our rights are continuously threatened. The lack of access to healthcare and the prevalence of domestic violence, abuse, and trafficking makes it crucial to create ... -
Breaking the Habit: A Fight Against the Monotony of Tract Housing
(North Dakota State University, 2023)This project looks at tract housing from the perspective of the homeowner. Tract housing has caused an identity crisis within neighborhoods across the nation, and it’s time we start taking a more forward approach to ... -
Breaking The Mold: Exploring the Recreation of Fitness Design in a Natural Setting
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Since the beginning of time, mankind has maintained a profound connection with their physical fitness and the World around them. However, modern day practices are distrupting these formerly innate behaviors. The lethargic ... -
Brewing Up a Community
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis begins to answer the question: through design how can different zoning types, such as commercial and industrial, be built to create a hybrid structure that would complement each zoning type? The Typology used ... -
Bridge: A Library as Interconnection for Culture and Function
(North Dakota State University, 2018)My thesis is focused on creating an opportunity for the exchange and connection between individuals, cultures, communities, and knowledge we gain from one another. Located in the Fargo-Moorhead area, the two cities have a ... -
Bridging Generations: Exploring Intergenerational Shared Building Sites to Counteract Age Segregation
(North Dakota State University, 2024)Age segregation is a rising problem in the United States. Since the early 1900s, this country has relied on age as a driving force in determining rules and regulations. Because of this, older and younger populations ... -
Bridging program and place
(North Dakota State University, 2015)A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students, yet so often our school buildings do little to suggest that any learning occurs inside. Our schools should be designed in a way that enhances the learning ... -
Bridging the gap - sustainability through technê
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis explores the relationship between experiential and scientific approaches to sustainability and the architectural approaches to the hot-button issue. It will provide an example of how an environment can encourage ... -
Bridging the Gap: Adaptive Reuse of an Intergenerational Learning Center
(North Dakota State University, 2016)This design thesis adaptively reuses the former St. Louis County Jail to house an independent living facility and a preschool that incorporates an Intergenerational Learning Center, located in the Downtown Waterfront ... -
Bridging Urban Divides: The Impact and Implementation of Bridge Parks
(North Dakota State University, 2024)This study examines the role bridge parks have in the enhancement of community connectivity across fragmented neighborhoods. By conducting a comparative analysis of bridge parks in various urban settings, identifying the ... -
Bringing Nature Indoors: Tetris Landscaping
(North Dakota State University, 2021)According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the average American spends 93% of their life indoors. Almost 70% of which is at home. By being indoors there is a greater chance of being exposed to higher ... -
Bringing the Rave out of the Cave
(North Dakota State University, 2020)By examing the types of space raves inhabited, from the anarchist grass-root orgins of the urban undergrounds to the vast landscapes of commodified festivals of today, I question: what would the ideal 21st century rave ... -
Broken Connections: Creating a Partnership of Mankind, Nature and Place Through Transportation
(North Dakota State University, 2016)This thesis examines how the revitalization of the passenger rail in America can repair an urban city’s connection with its natural surroundings, its history and its greater regional context. St. Paul, Minnesota ... -
Buffalo, MN: A Transect-Based Land Use Strategy
(North Dakota State University, 2006)The objectives of this thesis are to explore the social, economic, and environmental dynamics of land use regulations and examine design strategies to increase the community identity and the preservation of natural resources ... -
Building as Bridge: Re-imagining Sustainable Living Through Symphonic Design
(North Dakota State University, 2016)For German Philosopher, Martin Heidegger, a bridge is a manifestation of the fourfold—Earth, Sky, Divinities, and Mortals—which is at the root of all dwelling. He believed that preserving this fourfold is how we dwell in ... -
Building Blocks Towards New Education
(North Dakota State University, 2024)The purpose of this research is to look at the effects digital technologies have had on education and explore ways educational facilities can react to these new technologies in the form of how we look at learning spaces. ... -
Building Blocks: Re-framing Urban Inestment and Community Health Through Equitable Empowerment
(North Dakota State University, 2021)The modern city is failing at embracing the value of difference and common ground is fading. The implicit effects of urban policy are dividing cities and putting their most marginalized communities in an even more ... -
Building Community: A Mixed Use Urban Redevelopment Project With an Emphasis on Community Sustainability, St. Paul, Minnesota
(North Dakota State University, 2005)This thesis will be a study of mixed use facilities in an urban area in an effort to find a design that is not only aesthetically pleasing, but encourages community growth and development. Research will look into reasons ...