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Mending the Gap: Taking Advantage of Missed Opportunities Through Bridge Design
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Can a bridge be more than just a passageway to get from one side of a natural feature to another? Can different typologies be integrated into bridge design to create more of a destination than just a passage? Bridges ... -
A Methodology of Calculating the Carbon Footprint of a Building
(North Dakota State University, 2023)Environmentalism and conservation are two things that are very important to me. It is so enjoyable to be in a place where so little others have been. Walking through the woods where no human has adapted is precious. ... -
Micro Community
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This book examines what occurs when we let the cycles of mother nature take precedent in the way we design through responsive creation of a small community on the banks of the Red River. As architects in the 21st century, ... -
Mid-America Republic: A New Platform for Idea Sharing
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Civic Architecture’s intent is to bring the people of its city together for common interests. Today, cities are growing at such an exponential rate that Civic Architecture is often overlooked. Many public buildings built ... -
Midwest Musicians Institute: Architectural Design Through Music
(North Dakota State University, 2005)My thesis is the creation of a musical education and performance facility in downtown Fargo, ND. The education spaces will focus on the learning and practicing of music for individuals seeking musical careers, and the ... -
Millennial housing
(North Dakota State University, 2014)In this thesis, the current and past ideals of what is considered a home, the desires to create a home, and the features that make up the idea of home will be examined in regards to their being drastically changed due to ... -
Mind healing center: a place for alleviating depression
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Architectural details, can brighten the mood of a person. A healing design might show a clearer method of refreshing the minds of clients. The quality of the spaces would magnify importance on selection of color, texture, ... -
Mind in the External: A Rehabilitation Facility for the Clinically Depressed
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Recent studies in neuroscience suggest that our minds are actually projected into the outside world and the outside into our minds. By mixing this new knowledge with philosophy, research has shown that our built environment ... -
Minding the Gap
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Increasingly, there is a shift from multigenerational family living to seniors residing in age-specific facilities. Due in part to the relative isolation seniors experience here, there is also a noticeable rate of depression ... -
MindSet
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Society utilizes space as a tool to distance its most challenging and difficult citizens. In examining the question, “How can architecture influence the re-establishment of psychiatric stability in the mentally ill?”, the ... -
Minimalism, Technology and Opportunity: Developing a New Olympic Prototype
(North Dakota State University, 2017)It is very important as designers to make design decisions that not only effect and create results for the immediate, current situation at hand, but it is also our responsibility to create and design with the intention of ... -
Mining the Past: A Celebration of History and Culture in Minnesota's Iron Range
(2012)This project examines how the development of brownfields can benefit local communities and ecologies. Reclamation-based design principles are used to propose remediation of contaminated soils and the adaptive reuse of ... -
Minneapolis Mixed Use City Center for Arts and Culture
(North Dakota State University, 2005)The urban area, the heart and soul of a city; the people its living breathing separately, uniquely performing varied actions and activities with individual intentions but still all manage to move as one. One pulse ... -
Minnesota Juvenile Correctional Facility: Respect, Reaction, Rehabilitation
(North Dakota State University, 2005)As a thesis project, I propose a minimum security juvenile correctional facility in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. With this low security-type, most inmates will usually spend usually no more than five years in this facility ... -
Minnesota River Valley Research and Interpretive Center
(North Dakota State University, 2006)The project typology is a building which will consist of educational gatherings and displays, and areas devoted to research and development. The thesis will examine how natural forces and imported historical architectural ... -
Mississippi River Adventure
(North Dakota State University, 2011)My project will provide a means of adventure, discovery, and heightened awareness of the cultural, historical, and physical nature of the Mississippi River and surrounding area. The typology will be a “watercraft and ... -
Modular Montessori: Educating Towards Ecological Sustainability
(North Dakota State University, 2017)The world has experienced rapid change in the last fifty years. Though most change can be counted as good, there has been a fair amount of negative changes happening that continue to be major issues today. Issues such ... -
Moorhead City Walk : a masterplan to reimage Moorhead, Minnesota's urban core
(2015)This project explores the dynamics of streetscapes seeking to understand why some projects are successful and others are not. The location of the project is in Moorhead, Minnesota which is a border city to Fargo, North ... -
Movie House: Fantasizing the Ideal, Saint Paul, Minnesota
(North Dakota State University, 2005)The focus for this thesis project is the need to represent the real or fantasize the ideal in an urban environment with the design of a multi screen movie house. Designing a structure which involves a transition from the ... -
A Moving City
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This thesis will provide some answers to the question, “How can public transportation respond to the built environment to improve how we move within a city?” The typology for the examination of this problem is a light ...