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    • The Damages of Demolition 

      McDonald, Amy (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      The goal of this thesis is to compare the effects of restoring a historic building versus the process of demolition and new construction for the same typology. By quantifying the embodied energy put into the historic ...
    • Deaf Sight: A New Sound in Architecture : Architecture for the Deaf 

      Specht, Tyler (North Dakota State University, 2013)
    • Delight in Architecture 

      Bausman, Molly (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      This project explores delight in buildings and how we experience them. It states that the personality of a building as exhibited in individual traits is what we find delight in, as humans tend to personify things they ...
    • Denver Union Station Multimodal Public Transportation Facility & Mixed-Use Development 

      Wiener, Thomas A. (North Dakota State University, 2005)
      Denver is quickly becoming the “Grand Central Station” for transportation for the Western United States. Since the turn of the century Union Station, located on the edge of downtown Denver, has been used as the railroad ...
    • The Depth of Rivers and the Restorative Power of the Fragment: Architecture as Fluid Filmic Narrative 

      Galbraith, Christa (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      In 1948, Ralph Ellison wrote an article about the experience of living in Harlem and explained a common feeling of placelessness and uncertainty of self. This placelessness persists today as the neighborhood undergoes ...
    • Desalination and Architecture 

      Busagara, Olivier (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      This thesis project will focus on how a desalination plant can benefit the environment. As population grows, climate changes, and local water scarcity heighten, desalination of brackish water and seawater is increasingly ...
    • Desert Soul; Learning Conservation Through Self Revelation 

      Medd, Elizabeth (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      This thesis, Desert Soul: Learning Conservation through Self Revelation, will focus on an investigation of the question, how can insight from past cultures of the Sonoran Desert inform and direct conservation and sustainability ...
    • Design a Progressive Environment for Transitioning Foster Care Adolescents 

      Ochs, Samantha (North Dakota State University, 2021)
      Foster care was designed to help support and care for children in dire circumstances. At 18, the young adults are “aged out.” Current data on the aging out process has found poor outcomes for the young adults formerly ...
    • 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 ...
    • Design by Nature - A Montessori School 

      Fitzer, Mathias (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      This thesis examines the ability of designers to use nature as an inspiration in their design process, often referred to as biomimicry. The final design for this Montessori school of 180 students in Winnipeg, Manitoba will ...
    • Design for Bereavement 

      Larson, Nathan (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      This project seeks to explore how the built environment can create a healthy atmosphere for grieving the death of a loved one by examining psychological research to develop the form of the building, a space can be created ...
    • Design for Well-Being: Architecture to Reduce Health Inequity 

      Falk, Paige (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      As a society, we are faced with ever-changing healthcare costs and quality of care. Unfortunately, not everyone can access, or afford, the care that they need. Throughout the country, many people are facing illness and ...
    • Design in Rural America: Preserving the Past by Enhancing the Future, Buffalo, South Dakota 

      Lyons, Randy (North Dakota State University, 2005)
      Rural America of today is faced with major obstacles in the sense of maintaining active urban communities. Some of the factors the feed this fire are aging populations, and young people or moving away and not coming back. ...
    • Designed Desirable: Deteriorating Urban Communities Renewed 

      Hyllested, Ryan (2012)
      This thesis studies how designers and planners can create a desirable community in the deteriorating urban communities affected by urban sprawl. By its nature this project is a community planning effort. The results of ...
    • Designing Efficiently: A Focus on the User 

      Hooge, Sarah (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      Our built environment is plagued by ineffective design. Often we find we have lost sight of the purpose of our built environment as our needs and tasks have changed drastically over time. A fresh analysis of our needs and ...
    • Designing Emotion 

      Meier, Mitchell (North Dakota State University, 2021)
      This thesis revolves around the question of how can we push and use certain parts of our designs to influence people’s attitudes and reactions to create a better experience for the people who experience our designs. ...
    • Designing for a New Way of Living 

      Rausch, Megan (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      This graduate thesis explores the ideas and exploration of creating architecture as an educational instrument that will inform its occupants about a new, more environmentally-friendly way of living. The design itself becomes ...
    • Designing for Aging 

      Bergstrom, Matthew (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      The built environment must adapt to the increasing number of aged people by maintaining and improving the accessibility of the built environment. Due to improvements in medicine, as well as the aging of the baby boomer ...
    • Designing For All Seasons 

      Long Voelkner, Megann (2012)
      This design project examines how a landscape design can activate a small-scale Midwestern city’s outdoor use and tourism potential during the winter season. In the city of Bemidji, MN, the winter season can start as early ...
    • Designing for Chaos: Turning Digital Complexity into a Quantum Science Learning Center 

      Anderson, Ari (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis will explore the ability of a designer to use the arbitrary relationships generated in complex systems to determine the design of a building. Traditionally, the form of a building is created through a very ...