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City of Kids - design kindergarten
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis project, City of Kids, examines the question that how can architectural elements optimize the traditional method of early childhood development. This thesis proposal primarily focuses on the impacts of spatial ... -
City Provident
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis models a system of movement. Any space containing obstacles and needing to be traversed offers resistance to whom or whatever may be trying to navigate it. This resistance transfers directly to inefficiencies ... -
Cleaning by Greening: Adaptive Reuse of America's Open-Pit Mines
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Surface mines are a common sight in mineral-rich areas. One such area is the Mesabi Iron Range in northern Minnesota. These mines will eventually become abandoned, as many in the eastern United States, as well as many along ... -
Climate Refuge: Thermal Comfort in Urban Micro Climates
(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 ... -
Cohesive Community
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Cohesive Community Military Chapel - Outreach Center - 46,500 sq. ft. Minot AFB, ND How can the development of a place foster and nourish a sense of community and well being?” A place can create an atmosphere of ... -
Cohousing: Housing the Boomers
(North Dakota State University, 2005)With the largest generation coming close to the retirement age, there is a high demand for new communities aimed at appealing to the baby boomers and the future generations. Throughout this project, elements such ... -
Collecting Varied Energies within a Disconnected Community
(North Dakota State University, 2016)For centuries cities have been formed and various cultures shaped by the natural formation and flow of fresh water resources. Nature has an ever-changing pattern, rich-complexity, and various textures and forms that appeal ... -
Collision Course: Leveraging Open Space Conservation and Public Education to Minimize Bald Eagle Aircraft Strikes in St. Paul, Minnesota
(North Dakota State University, 2018)While many of us travel on an airplane day to day, the responsibility that pilots take on from boarding to deboarding is intensely high. Many considerable things could go wrong, and being responsible for many lives puts ... -
Color, Light, Form & Sound: A New Religious Building for Common Ground Church
(North Dakota State University, 2005)Commonly, the word 'church' is most often associated with Christians, and the word 'church' is both defined as the building for worship, as well as the congregation. The religious building is a space used to worship and ... -
Common Culture: Rediscovering Public Space in American Cities
(North Dakota State University, 2017)The influence of public spaces in urban life is an issue that has been apparent since the development of ancient cities. Opportunities to socialize, interact, and exchange ideas in these spaces allow members of a community ... -
Communities - Progress Through Gathering
(North Dakota State University, 2011)The ideas of how architecture can help rural communities stay viable in the twenty-first century will be explored through the development and design of a multi-use community center. Located in Grantsburg, a small rural ... -
Community (Make) Shift: Bringing urban communities together through the activation of underutilized spaces with social programming in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.
(2017)In current times society is gravitating towards urban communities. Although cities have higher amounts of people per proximity in these areas, it does not stop people from feeling lonely. Loneliness is defined as the ... -
Community Bridge
(North Dakota State University, 2022)The traumatizing effects of homelessness on families can have long lasting consequences, especially for children who often miss considerable amounts of school due to their newly disrupted life. Without a solid education, ... -
Community Connections
(2012)A university community in the Midwest will need to increase in density to accommodate an expanding population. This design thesis examines how density and growth can be accomplished while improving the quality of life for ... -
Community Design and Development by Necessity
(North Dakota State University, 2006)The project will entail a planned community for the poor citizens who live in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The development will include developing and sustaining a community through housing, public services, and ... -
Community Design Build
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis provides some answers to the question, how might a restorative community-based residential design build center/curriculum be created where the structure itself resonates with the embedded values of such an ... -
Community Fabrication
(2010)This thesis set out to design for multiple people and their particular uses. To combine the desires of many and influence the way that they all use the space. Each user has defined different outcomes for the area, with no ... -
Community Focused Urban Renewal
(North Dakota State University, 2023)Cities across the nation continue to develop and grow, but in many, rundown industrially zoned lots tend to be left alone and become an eyesore. These sites need to be better utilized by the community living around them. ... -
Community Identity: Re-connecting City + River
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This project will examine a growing city’s historical origin that has been lost. The typology will be community center and library accompanied by a bridge/site rennovation. The guiding idea is that the design will be ... -
Community Resilience: Investing in Walkability
(2011)Currently, Main Avenue is lacking character and connection to the rest of Fargo, North Dakota. Most of Main Avenue is zoned commercial, and it appears to be highly industrialized because of full scale billboards, concrete ...