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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 ... -
Permeable education
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis, Permeable Education, provides insight into the impact that permeable architecture has on the culture in a community when applied in educational spaces. The typology, a 230,000 square foot Center for Learning ... -
Permeable Layering
(North Dakota State University, 2013)DESIGN WITH layering. The layering creates spaces that are safe, disconnected and protected from the outside. This is shown and felt through the creation of pathways and connections to spaces that are cut through the ... -
Permeating Barriers - Minneapolis, MN
(2010)Vast neighborhood change has long been characteristic of American communities. Declining physical conditions, social instability, and urban sprawl have all impacted inner city neighborhoods over the past few decades. In ... -
Pier Luigi Penzo: Football on Water and the Stadium Experience
(North Dakota State University, 2023)The stadium experience is one that has evolved and been enjoyed for centuries. Stadium architecture, technology, and the sporting event itself has changed greatly yet many events tend to miss out on the atmospheric and ... -
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 ... -
The Pine Ridge Project: Revitalizing the Forgotten
(2013)This project ventures to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in western South Dakota. The reservation is home to a rich culture of Lakota Sioux Native Americans that, unfortunately, are living in one of the most impoverished ... -
A Place for lace
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis explores the question, “How can the digital, mechanized world of today, help keep the tradition of handcrafted Belgian lace alive?” The typology for the examination of this problem is a museum/learning center ... -
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 ... -
Place: Community Development and the Effects of Nature and Culture
(2010)What conjures a sense of place? Is it the landscape, the built environment, the people, or more likely a combination of them all? This document explores the factors that contribute to a unique sense of place. With this ... -
The Planetary Rift: Awakening the Senses to the Necessity of Nature
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Around the world, confirmation of the deterioration of our planet’s ecosystem is evident. It’s become so common that we are no longer disturbed by the incineration of ancient rainforests and depletion of drinkable water ... -
Play and the Public Realm
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Play is what makes us human. Play provides new perspectives which are required. Play promotes relationship, of those close to us and those in public, both needed relationships. We are more connected than ever in the modern ... -
Play Streets: Integrating safe and engaging play opportunities for children into the streetscape network of Lowertown, St. Paul Minnesota
(2017)The following project addresses the idea that play should be integrated into streetscape design to create a more interactive and stimulating play environment for children living in urban environments. The project discusses ... -
Please Feel Invited: Children's Psychiatric Rehabilitation Using Salutogeneic Design
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Mental health is a state of psychological, emotional, and social wellbeing that can have a variety of difficulties that affect the daily function of a person. Mental illness is a persistent problem, with the most ... -
Plug it in: A perpetual living system
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Plug it in explores the question -- are the principles and guidelines of modularity sufficient to accommodate a community and yield a city. The problem will be expressed by the design of a mixed-use potential building with ... -
PODs and MODs : Modularity as a Response to the Skills Gap
(North Dakota State University, 2018)PODs & MODs focuses on vocational trades schools, design build programs, entrepreuneurial maker space startups, modular shipping container builders and the manufacturing industry to investigate the issues companies are ... -
Point of Pines Ecolodge: Promoting Educational Awareness and Resource Management Through Energy, Food and Water Conservation in North Central Minnesota
(2017)As first world countries become more conscious of the carbon footprint in the environment, many resorts continue to excessively use natural resources. This thesis intends to redesign the existing prototype in resorts by ... -
Pollinator Paradise: Restoring Bee Habitat through a Recreational and Educational Park in Los Angeles, California
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Bees play an important part in our community. They pollinate over one third of all of our food. Many people do not realize the importance of bees and pollinators and their existence. How can we educate and protect such an ... -
Portside: Promoting Growth Through Urban Tourism
(2013)Shifts in tourism over the last forty years have evolved and gone back to large urban cities, and as a result the practice of urban tourism has grown and been moved to the forefront of many city planning efforts. Urban ... -
Post Pandemic Shopping
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Shopping malls were originally designed to give people the opportunity to socialize and shop within the same environment. The shopping mall concept is extremely important within the urban spacial system, as it connects ...