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    • Rural Decline:Preserving Community 

      Kieper, Jacob (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      Rural Decline: Preserving Community. This thesis will focus on the question “How can architecture aid in the preservation and revitalization of rural communities?” Architectural problem solving and community involvement ...

    • Rural Transitions: A Supplemental Community 

      Mikkonen, Blain (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      The thesis, Rural Transitions, investigates the problem that has become a growing trend as more people move from rural, agricultural areas into suburban or city life. Many of the existing country dwellers are no longer ...

    • The Sacred Qualities of the Mundane: Using Music and Architecture to Achieve Harmony in the Workplace 

      Walbolt, David (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      This thesis project is intended to critique the daily ritual we fall into has humans. We wake up, go to work, come home and to do it all again tomorrow. How can we design the workplace to be a space that makes you want to ...

    • Safe Harbor: Recontextualizing Architectural Design to Engage Society in Combating Human Trafficking 

      Stroh, Anna (North Dakota State University, 2021)
      As one of the fastest growing and most lucrative criminal enterprises, human trafficking involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to lure victims into labor or commercial sexual exploitation. Minnesota faces widespread ...

    • The Salmon Run: A Restoration & Recreation Plan for the Valley Creek Watershed in Port Angeles, WA 

      Nyquist, Ellie (2016)
      This thesis studies the life cycle needs of salmon and asks the question, how can we restore a river to be viable for salmon habitat as well as promote positive human interaction? As an indicator species, salmon are ...

    • Saudade - rethinking deathcare 

      Schrader, Alex (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      This thesis explores the manner in which architecture can more sympathetically respond to people in a time of loss and grievance. Through adaptively repurposing a historic structure in Minneapolis, MN, a crematory and ...

    • Science Museum of Fargo: A Study of the Social Values of Cultural Buildings 

      Draeger, Douglas R. (North Dakota State University, 2005)
      There are certain values that have been assigned throughout history to cultural buildings that are dedicated to the arts and sciences. The result of a search to further understand these values will lead to architectural form ...

    • Scientific discovery + Designing the science museum of the future 

      Bukowski, Dennis (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      This thesis demonstrated the connection between how children and adults learn about science, as well as the connection between science and technology in modern building design. By looking at the scientific advancements of ...

    • Seattle's Urban Water 

      Kroll, Zerek (2012)
      The issue of stormwater runoff is a major threat to the water supply of Seattle, Washington. Continual rain and great expanses of impervious surfaces cause contamination and pollution to riddle the waters of the Puget ...

    • Seeds To Grow | A Community led greenway 

      Riley, Jesse (2012)
      Project-based learning can positively influence community in the normally reactionary design of a riparian greenway. This thesis examines how a greenway system can affect a community by allowing its residents to play an ...

    • Selling the system 

      Herzog, Andrew (2014)

    • Sense-a-tecture: An Exploration into Architectural Sensory Experience and Environmental Learning 

      White, Christopher (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      Our world is built up of individual parts. Each part is unique by itself, but it is the process of bringing them together that makes up our experience as a whole. There is more to a forest than the texture of bark. We use ...

    • Senseful design 

      Lenz, Chelsea (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      This thesis - senseful design - explores the relationship that our five senses have with architecture. Can a holistic design for our senses create a more meaningful experience with architecture? This question is answered ...

    • Sensitive Significance 

      Anderson, Kerry (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      This thesis studies the question of how the quality of the built environment affects all aspects of well-being in its users. The topic will be explored through mixed method research with an emphasis on the relationships ...

    • Sensory Architecture : Redefining How One Interprets Space 

      Holz, Heather (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      This design thesis will address the question: how do combinations of our senses influence the way we interact with our surrounding built environment? The typology chosen to evaluate this question is an addition to an ...

    • Sensory Overlay: Promoting Inclusivity and Accessibility for Americans with Disabilities along the Midtown Greenway in Uptown Minneapolis 

      El Tamimi, Alina (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      Urban spaces are often hostile environments for individuals with disabilities. The bigger American cities grow the harder they become to navigate for those with disabilities as they provide more challenges and obstacles. ...

    • Sensory Synthesis: Exploring the Integration of Sensory Design in Early Education 

      Reimer, Olivia (North Dakota State University, 2021)
      Autism Spectrum disorder, ASD, is a developmental disability caused by differences in the brain. It results in social, communication, behavior, and emotional differences. Since ASD is a spectrum there is a large range ...

    • Separation of the city & the river : enhancing Lowertown through the revitalization of St. Paul's industrial waterfront 

      O'Keeffe, Patrick (2015)
      This research addresses the historic Mississippi riverfront in Lowertown, St. Paul, Minnesota, focusing directly on Lower Landing Park. The Lower Landing Riverfront Park project aims to rediscover the underutilized industrial ...

    • Serene Senescence: Modular Aging in Place in Fargo, North Dakota 

      Clarksean, Kristin (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      As the population of baby boomers reaches retirement age, the question of how to house and properly care for this generation comes to mind. Many of the smaller living spaces geared toward the senior population are ...

    • Shedding Light: On the End to Native Genocide 

      Blindert, Dominic (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has seen historical trauma. Located roughly 75 miles southeast of the Black Hills in South Dakota, Pine Ridge has received international attention for its incredible despair. Plagued for ...