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Light & Learning
(North Dakota State University, 2013)My thesis investigates the question: how does exposure to natural light enhance academic performance in an elementary school? My claim is that exposure to natural light enhances academic performance in elementary schools. ... -
Light and shadow : experiential boutique resort
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis explores the question, “How can the manipulation of light and shadow through texture affect the experience of a space?” The typology for this thesis is a experiential boutique resort which is located within the ... -
Lights, Camera, Innovation: Architecture Without Limitation through the Tool of Cinematic Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Creativity is characterized by the ability to perceive the world in new ways, to find hidden patterns, to make connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena, and to generate solutions. Architects are creative to the ... -
Linguistic Spaces Within the Urban Fabric: Music, Story, and Collective Memory in New Orleans
(North Dakota State University, 2023)The modern American city has been shaped by the aggressive domination of circulation and efficiency leading to a continual decline in urban public space. The potential of qualitative public space are often unmet by ... -
Listen: A Sensory Experience
(North Dakota State University, 2017)This thesis project uses interpretive and evaluative research methods to examine how best to bring two social circles together through intentional design, education, and immersion. The project is a design proposal for a ... -
Live + Work + Play: Engaging and Revitalizing the Broader Urban Community Through Sport
(North Dakota State University, 2021)As most professional sports leagues continue moving towards a minor league model in an effort to develop athletes right out of high school as opposed to drafting players from the college ranks, the question of where these ... -
Live Active : An Architectural Response to Rehabilitation
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis researches and examines the way we respond to our environment, both natural and built. According to Newtonian physics, for every action there is an equal or opposite reaction. Default stairs, walls, windows, ... -
Live Mpls
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Today we have the luxury of hindsight; this allows for the truth of past actions to reveal itself to us. We can look back on our shared human history and recognize the repercussions of certain actions, and it is with ... -
Living a Healthier Life: A Connection Between Mind, Body and Spirit
(North Dakota State University, 2005)This thesis project is a wellness center for the city of Moorhead, MN. The site is located on Main Avenue next to the Red River. The site features easy access to both Fargo and Moorhead’s downtown areas and the bike ... -
Living Lightly on Earth: The Urban Eco Village
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Imaging living a low-impact lifestyle surrounded by nature, food, freshwater and air, wildlife, and a community with a common desire. An eco village is a community with shared land that promotes positive values including ... -
Living Streets within Downtown Fargo: A Living Street that Focuses on the Pedestrian, Environmental, and Social Design Elements in Downtown Cores
(North Dakota State University, 2021)With downtown Fargo continuing to change with new multi-use buildings and parking garages, the focus should now be on the streets. Over the past couple years there has been multiple parking garages built within a mile of ... -
Living utopia : challenging education as a machine through the design of architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Philosopher Jonathan Powers argues that current culture and society are engaging a utopian ideology. This model began in the 16th century when the educational system sought to reduce all knowledge to eidetic (visual) ... -
Lolo Peak Resort
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Architecture in the mountains of Montana. Resorts in the alpine climate seem to only have one season. This is because more people see mountain resorts as a winter, rather than a four season, getaway. The need is out there ... -
Longevtiy: Urban Retirement Living
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis, Longevity, studies the ability to create a place to dwell that improves the quality, longevity, and ability to heal those that inhabit its walls all the while residing within and urban setting. The typology ... -
Love in Las Vegas: An Introduction of Spaces of Desire to Sin City
(North Dakota State University, 2020)“Falling in love, according to Socrates, is both madness and a revelation of the world as it really is.” - Perez-Gomez, Built Upon Love. Perhaps this is exactly what Las Vegas so desperately needs: a revelation among ... -
Lowell Park: Reconnecting a City to Its Waterfront
(North Dakota State University, 2005)Stillwater lies in one of the most beautiful locations in Minnesota. It harbors a rich history linked to the river and was one of the first settlements in Minnesota. As of late Stillwater’s downtown has been a hot spot ... -
The Machine of Pataphysics: Reimagining the Relationship Between Humanity & Technology
(North Dakota State University, 2022)In our world there are two things that can be seen as obvious ways that humanity could end. First is that of climate change which we hear about and attempt to deal with all the time. Second, and perhaps less obvious, is ... -
Main Street Visual & Performing Art Center
(North Dakota State University, 2015)The community of North Branch, Minnesota lacks a suitable fine art culture. The school district is unable to provide a quality fine art education due to lack of funding. There are few opportunities for locals to become ... -
Maintaining the Integrity of the Public Library Building in the Digital Age
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Today’s public library building sits in a peculiar position as media changes from the tactile to the digital. The thesis aims to illustrate the continued importance of the library as a physical place within the community. ... -
The Maker Factory
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Creativity, innovation and social interaction are key elements of being human. How can architecture influence these traits and create an environment that not only inspires but allows for expression of these by means of ...