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    • Cass County Energy Interpretive Center 

      Rajapakse, Shanaka (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis examines the feasibility of conducting an alternative educational center parallel to the Cass County Electric Cooperative and its operations. Promoting renewable energies and educating the Community with ...
    • chain reaction 

      Utke, Jourdann (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      This chain reaction thesis will be created by the necessity of human interaction. It is both an examination of human connection as well as spatial configurations. This will show how human connections are crucial to growth ...
    • City Provident 

      Martz, Steven (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 ...
    • Cohesive Community 

      Mellgren, Jeffrey (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 ...
    • Community Connections 

      Hall, Nathan (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 Build 

      Pauley, Dani (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 

      Falkers, Stephanie (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 ...
    • Coworking and the Social Office 

      Nohr, Matthew (North Dakota State University, 2016)
      Our community is an integral part of our identity and our relationship with one another gives us purpose. Architecture constructs the environment and so constructs our interactions. This thesis explores how architectural ...
    • Creating for creativity 

      Brackel, Alicia (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      This thesis, Creating for Creativity, examines the impact an experience of an environment has on its inhabitant’s creativity. The typology of this project is a 76,000 square foot art museum and creativity center located ...
    • Design active 

      Stroh, Alyssa (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      The way in which one’s environment is built has a strong influence on the individual and community as a whole. Societies across America are very diverse depending on geographical location, resources, economy, climate, and ...
    • Designing for Humanity 

      Thordson, Elizabeth (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      This thesis aims to explore the idea that a healthy prison design will in turn create a healthy atmosphere. I will work to design a prison that will aid in the inmates’ transition back into society. By designing a structure ...
    • Designing for Play in Island Park 

      Bartlett, Halley (North Dakota State University, 2021)
      ‘Planning for Play in Island Park’ is a design thesis based meant to identify a realistic and multifaceted response to the removal of Ash Trees (Fraxinus pennsylvanica) from Fargo North Dakota’s downtown Island Park. ...
    • Developing a Dialectic 

      Greenwood, Brittany (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      This project, titled Developing a Dialectic, began as an analysis of the tangible evidence of time within a built environment, specifically the changing paths on which we experience our cities and the objects and spaces ...
    • Development of the Youth 

      Bickel, Jeremy (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis presents research on the benefits well designed youth centers can have on children as they grow into adulthood. The typology of this project is a center for the study of children maturation. The site is in ...
    • Ecological Architecture : Reconnecting Environments 

      Blume, Anthony (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      The typology for this facility derived from the problem concerning the separation of environments. The design will incorporate an Ecological Education and Research Center for Sustainable Development (EERCSD) within the ...
    • Effects of stadia on their neighborhood 

      Anderson, Nicholas (2014)
      This thesis examines the effects stadia have on their neighborhoods and how they can better benefit their neighborhoods. The proposed site is in downtown Fargo, North Dakota. The project will help improve downtown through ...
    • Eightfold architecture 

      Meiers, Karissa (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      This thesis investigates the question of how Eightfold Architecture can help inspire us to save existing abandoned buildings, and with this bring an enlightened functionality to transitional areas of our cities. The concept ...
    • Enhanced Assisted Living: An Architectural Strategy to Reduce the Negative Effects for Society Caused by Aging Population 

      Xing, Mengke (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      Due to the emergence of large numbers of elderly people as the Baby Boomer generation ages and the life span extended, an aging population has become a serious issue for modern society with far-reaching economic and ...
    • Enhancing the Ballpark Experience: NDSU Softball Complex Renovation 

      Heintzman, Haley (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      There are countless factors that influence how people experience the environment around them. These influences include sensory dynamics, such as light, noise, temperature, and sound, as well as memorable events, and ...
    • Ephemeral Population : Housing for a Transient Workforce 

      Hoffer, Eric (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      Western North Dakota is currently experiencing a tremendous oil boom which is attracting people from all over the country because of the prospects of money, work, and a better way of life. Communities are desperately trying ...