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    • Game Play: Promoting Park Retention, Physical Activity, and Social Interaction in Central Minneapolis through Pokemon GO 

      Malecek, Kyle (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      It’s become increasing obvious how technology has impacted and influenced our everyday lives. People are constantly on their phones, laptops, tablets, or gaming consoles for entertainment and staying connected with their ...
    • Gateway Centre - Minneapolis, Minnesota 

      Olschlager, Gordon A. (North Dakota State University, 1978)
    • Healing Heights 

      Krause, Bailey (2014)
      This thesis examines reasons why the Children’s Hospital Minneapolis campus is a location that benefits from a therapeutic green roof. Healing Heights will bring meaning and life to an otherwise conventional roof that is ...
    • Hmong Funeral Rites and The Space Between 

      Vang, Hue (North Dakota State University, 2016)
      The sacred has always been a part of human life from the beginning of time. Religion and faith throughout the timeline has driven multiple major revolutions. They have answered questions that could not be answered, but now ...
    • In the Loop: Making Historically Conscious Pedestrian Connections 

      Tomkinson, Christopher (2016)
      Connecting green spaces, and providing meaningful and convenient pedestrian passage are two ideas that push sustainability, encourage community activity, and create a more enjoyable environment for the users. This is the ...
    • The Integration of Urban Agriculture into the Modern Elementary Education Curriculum - Public Private Partnership as a Community Engaged Design Venture, A Delivery Model for Stronger Schools 

      Gram, Ryan (North Dakota State University, 2016)
      What If we could create social change with the schools we build? What if we could build these schools with local partners, and not dig deeper into our tax payers wallet? Schools have been built largely the same way with ...
    • Intramural cycling environment : Bassett Creek Pedal Club 

      Cotcamp, Casey (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Understanding a specific need of the public is very important when looking at how a building can promote a healthy lifestyle, while saving energy and bringing a community closer together. Minneapolis, Minnesota, along with ...
    • The Labyrinth Studies: Exhibiting Culture through Art & Architecture 

      Erickson, Philip (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Our institutions are predicated on a stable and predictable ground on which to enact our daily affairs. Because architecture embodies our social, cultural, and political beliefs and values, when these beliefs become ...
    • Lake Street Teen Center 

      Mueller, Kelsi (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      The Lake Street Teen Center addresses the question how can design positively impact a place susceptible to delinquent behavior? The Typology for the investigation of this problem is a center for teens. The Theoretical ...
    • Learning to Play in Nature; an Urban Playground for Adolescents 

      Gurath, Priscilla (2013)
      This project examines the problems surrounding the increase in adverse health related issues directly relating to the decrease in society’s physical activity and exercise opportunities for adolescents in their immediate ...
    • Lessons from the polis : the Minneapolis Museum of Art 

      Strombeck, Nicholas (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      Philosophers Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Hans-Georg Gadamer have critiqued the modern museum as a place of art for the sake of art, where the aesthetics of the work have come to dominate the conversation. In the Relevance of ...
    • Live Mpls 

      Ormsby, Alexander (North Dakota State University, 2020)
      Today we have the luxury of hindsight; this allows for the truth of past actions to reveal itself to us. We can look back on our shared human history and recognize the repercussions of certain actions, and it is with ...
    • Manufacturing: A New Way 

      Wullschleger, Scott (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      This thesis project, titled Manufacturing: a new way, will examine manufacturing buildings, and the working conditions that exist there. The typology will be a brewery with a area of 60,000 square feet. The guiding idea ...
    • Mending the Gap: Taking Advantage of Missed Opportunities Through Bridge Design 

      Lunde, Nicholas (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      Can a bridge be more than just a passageway to get from one side of a natural feature to another? Can different typologies be integrated into bridge design to create more of a destination than just a passage? Bridges ...
    • Millennial housing 

      Surat, Jacklyn (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      In this thesis, the current and past ideals of what is considered a home, the desires to create a home, and the features that make up the idea of home will be examined in regards to their being drastically changed due to ...
    • Naturalization of Boom Island : restoration of the Great Lakes habitat in present day Minneapolis, Minnesota 

      Hermes, Ryan (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 

      Brown, Aaron (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 

      Carlson, Alexander (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 ...
    • Nesting: Dwelling through Surrealistic Spaces within the Urban Fabric of Minneapolis 

      Falcon, Lauren (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. ...
    • New Productive Landscapes: Designing for Sustainable Urban Food 

      Thomas, Nathan (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, ...