Browsing Design, Architecture & Art, School of by Subject "Minnesota."
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Natural Healing: Physical and Spiritual Healing (in a Powerful and Nurturing Setting)
(North Dakota State University, 2016)This thesis, Natural Healing: Physical and Spiritual Healing (in a Powerful and Nurturing Setting), examines how healing spaces in a clinical setting can influence the healing process of cancer patients undergoing treatment ... -
Naturalization of Boom Island : restoration of the Great Lakes habitat in present day Minneapolis, Minnesota
(2015)This thesis researches the ecosystem of what is now modern-day Minneapolis, Minnesota before its settlement in the 19th century. An understanding of the area’s natural state is applied to the redevelopment of Boom Island, ... -
Nature in Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis provides answers to the question: How can we, as architects, make a building of the environment in which it is built? The typology for the examination of this problem is multi-family housing. The theoretical ... -
The Nature of happiness
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Designed as a 384,300 SF urban mixed-use community Node and placed in Minneapolis, MN this thesis attempts to show how architectural design may respond to the overwhelming pollution, poor quality of life and mass urban ... -
Nature of Hospitality
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis searches to provide an answer to the question: how is hospitality expressed in architectural terms and how does this affect our perception of space? The Building Typology for analysis of the problem is a ... -
Nesting: Dwelling through Surrealistic Spaces within the Urban Fabric of Minneapolis
(North Dakota State University, 2016)The next generation requires humble dwelling spaces within cities hosting problematic urban complexities. While the city attempts to establish order, issues of functionality, density, and economics, take precedent. ... -
A New Adventure: Encouraging People to Go Out to Discover American History through Architecture and the Environment that Surrounds It
(North Dakota State University, 2018)There are towns and historical places all over the country that currently do not have a space that allows for historical learning. Without these places of learning the history and knowledge tends to die off disappearing ... -
A New Anoka: A Suburban Infill Project
(North Dakota State University, 2018)The purpose of this thesis is to study a pocket of land along an existing train line in Anoka, MN. It is a pocket of land that was not developed due to its zoning for industrial use. The adjacent land has been developed ... -
The New Modern Library
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis focuses on the relationship between a building and its contents, how this effects the layout and appearance of the building, and the changing needs of a typology. The typology used in examining this relationship ... -
New Productive Landscapes: Designing for Sustainable Urban Food
(2013)As of 2008 over half of the world’s population is now living in cities, and the number is expected to swell to approximately five billion in the next twenty to thirty years. As the volume of people living in cities rises, ... -
A New way to connect to travel
(North Dakota State University, 2015)This thesis examines how architecture can make mass transit more accessible and desirable to the public and how the public’s wants and needs can improve a transportation center’s design. It examines how making downtown ... -
North Woods: Promoting Phytoremediation Design Techniques and Public Educational Opportunities for the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant
(2017)As the human population increases and expands from growing urban environments, many pressures are imposed on the undeveloped natural wetlands. Traditional practices of land development produce high amounts of risk for ... -
Northstar Rail Terminus
(North Dakota State University, 2018)The purpose of this thesis is to examine the ways that a commuter rail development in Downtown St. Cloud can create a scene of identity and purpose that it currently lacks. [Throughout] this thesis I will explore how train ... -
Old + New
(North Dakota State University, 2013)In this thesis the question, how can buildings that no longer serve their original purpose be reused for a new typology in a sustainable way, is worked out and given answers. It will be explored through the typology of a ... -
Oncology Center: Healing through Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2018)The typology of my project is healthcare design. Based on past research, many studies have shown that the environment and space that an individual is in can strongly influence a person’s treatment plan and healing process. ... -
Organic Branding: Promoting & Enhancing Organic Processes Through Design
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis, Organic Branding, provides answers to the question, “Can interactive and organic product’s processes be promoted or enhanced by architecture?” The typology is an 81,000 square foot innovative urban, mixed-use ... -
Outbreak File: Sibley County
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis, Outbreak File: Sibley County, researches and examines the ecological footprint in order to describe an efficient way to design and protect communities from the threat of a zombie apocalypse. Discovering how ... -
PeDesign
(2010)This thesis sets out to explore planning alternatives that function for pedestrians instead of vehicular traffic. Setting new standards and development process will help for a long and successful community but understanding ... -
Pillsbury Mill Complex
(North Dakota State University, 2012)In design, process is sometimes forgotten when it comes down to a finalized production. What if production, process, and progress were all intertwined instead of specified on a time line? This thesis explores how different ... -
Place of Origin: Searching for a Current Vernacular for the St. Croix River Valley
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Cultures entrench themselves in the environment. Their histories are defined by it and their people are at one with it. Current architecture at times is so universally tuned out of unique regional qualities that it begs ...