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    • Structured Living 

      Nelson, Brent (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      Architecture and its infrastructure act as a mediating tool defining the world around us by structuring experience. This thesis will define the consequence of building and how designers structure experience by opening and ...
    • Structures Becoming Shadows: Evoking An Empathetic Perception Through The Construction of Mourning 

      Ward, Megan (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      The thesis responds to the constructive thought and perception around death and the mourning and grieving processes of life. The typology being a crematorium/columbarium will emphasize this inevitable process in life and ...
    • A Subaqueous Future 

      Osland, Mitchell (North Dakota State University, 2022)
      A hundred years into the future, humanity and the world will experience dramatic changes. As climate change begins to alter our global environments, humanity must adapt to the changes it brings. The overall increase in ...
    • subURBAN : redefining urban residential 

      Bugge, Steven (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      Suburbia is being called home to an increasing number of people living in Western societies. In the United States, more people live in the suburbs than the cities they surround, and 75% of all new construction is taking ...
    • Suburban Sequel: A Safer, Walkable Brooks Harbor Community 

      Lind, Haley (North Dakota State University, 2022)
      Brooks Harbor in West Fargo, North Dakota is a new development that expanded rapidly with the addition of family housing. Due to its sprawl like development pattern, an analysis is done to determine the status of ...
    • Summit's Rally: Preserving the ecological systems of the Ross Lake Rec. Area and the North Cascades National Park through recreational education 

      Smith, Corey (2017)
      This project explores the central issues surrounding the Northern Cascades National Park (NCNP) complex, and their relationships to the conservation efforts and protocol of the park’s system. These issues are: local ...
    • Sun and ice 

      Rinkenberger, Crystal (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      Sited in Barrow, Alaska - the northernmost city in North America - my conservatory design explores the challenges that climate and daylighting present 300 miles above the Arctic Circle. This “land of the midnight sun” ...
    • Superior Shores Lakehomes: Lake Superior's Hidden Destination 

      Schlukebier, Melissa (North Dakota State University, 2005)
      The north shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota is a major tourist destination for travelers from around the country and worldwide. The past 50 years has seen rapid development of both residential and commercial lots along ...
    • Supportive Learning: Live, Grow 

      Hausladen, Virginia (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis is an investigation into how design can facilitate and enhance learning for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders. By designing for groups of people with very specific needs, we learn how architecture can ...
    • Sustainability of Time 

      Peake, Nicholas (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      The Government is building a storage facility at Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert, which is where the dormitory complex would need to be as well. This is as structure that will have a program and life span of at least ...
    • Sustainability: A Holistic Approach 

      Rauniyar, Ankit (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      Man’s relationship with nature started as a mutual relationship which slowly developed into man vs. nature. This altering ideology has developed humans to believe they are superior to nature. Rather than living in harmony ...
    • Sustainable Connections: A Comprehensive Design of a Energy-Efficient Convention Center 

      Kautzman, Alexis (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Sustainable Connections: A Comprehensive Design of a Energy-Efficient Convention Center is a design thesis focused on the issue how can adaptive sustainable methods and technologies be applied to a convention center to ...
    • Sustainable Convenience 

      Harter, Jessica (North Dakota State University, 2020)
      Globally, society is on the cusp of substantial environmental changes. These changes start with insight into the current state of the environment, mindset changes that need to be made, then to the necessary lifestyle changes. ...
    • Sustainable Engagement 

      Crook, Sarah (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      This thesis is my solution to how architecture can influence individuals to learn and live in a sustainable environment that excites its users. I have redefined sustainability as, “a social change involving individuals, ...
    • Sustainable Framework for Lakeshore Communities 

      French, Ashlyn (North Dakota State University, 2020)
      This study explores the 9-mile-long shoreline, along with the 700 acres of water in Lake Mitchell. The City of Mitchell has 15,600 people surrounding the polluted lake in South Dakota. Lake Mitchell's water is toxic, so ...
    • Sustainable Growth and Redevelopment of Wadena: Evoking a Meaningful Change 

      Jones, Adam (2011)
      The general public often delude themselves into thinking that the landscapes we design are implicitly sustainable, though they frequently are not. We, as designers, must make known, and take responsibility for, the ...
    • Sustainable Lakeshore Development : Integrating Lakeshore Ecosystems into the Urban Environment 

      Kramvik, James (2011)
      This project is meant to explore sustainable lakeshore design ideas within private and public community property that share a common water body resource. A community surrounding a water body forms a social-ecological ...
    • Sustainable Lakeshore Tourism 

      Bishop, Adam (2012)
      This thesis examines the importance of urban lakeshore waterfronts for they are merely large wetlands, that play a crucial role in maintaining eco-balance, protecting bio-diversity, and replenishing underground water ...
    • A Sustainable Living Solution For Southern Minnesota 

      Schwarz, Ben (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      Abstract: This thesis discusses the possibility and feasibility of designing sustainably in harsh climatological extremes. It more specifically covers the typology of single family residential dwellings, better known ...
    • The Sustainable Middle School of Vancouver 

      Mertz, Mandel (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      There is a lack of awareness of what we are doing to our ecosystems and how we can reverse the trend of harmful practices that threaten our environment. Through education and observation, a more widespread movement of ...