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[re]DUX : adaptive architecture, [re]use & mixed use
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis examines the implications a building’s history/past has on its future development. It is guided by the idea that some structures are more capable than others in making the transition from one function ... -
rEACH Central Ground Pet Healthcare Facility
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Animals have been beside humans for centuries, throughout the time we have tried to understand and domesticate all sorts of animals. There are many benefits to having pets in our lives, including a happier and healthier ... -
READesign
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis, READesign: Architecture that promotes knowledge, will focus on an investigation of the question, how can architecture enhance education and learning. The typology for this examination will be a mixture between ... -
Realliance: A Scrap Metal Recycling Facility
(North Dakota State University, 2005)With the growing concern for our environment, recycling has become an issue for everyone, from recycling aluminum cans to reusing building materials. Scrap metal facilities have become more prevalent in recent years and ... -
Realms of Reality Elementary School: Empowering Young Learners: Integrating AR/VR Technology in Elementary Schools
(North Dakota State University, 2023)An analytical re-imagining of the K-12 educational model in tandem with AR and VR technologies through architecture has the ability to redefine the success of the next generation of minds. Technology is constantly evolving ... -
ReArrange: Making Space Transform
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This thesis explores the question of how kinetic architecture can promote learning in the general public. The typology that is being examined is a kinetic laboratory. The Theoretical Premise /Unifying Idea guiding research ... -
Reawakening Cultural Significance: Ruin Exploration in its Full Embodiment
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis aims to evoke a “historical consciousness” through the embodied experience of architecture. Specifically speaking, this architecture will reawaken the history of the Native American culture through creative ... -
Rebuilding the Human Experience
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis will create a natural food co-op in a town devastated by natural disaster. The design of this building will utilize a site with an existing structural failure in Greensburg, Kansas, left behind after the ... -
Recognizing History through Cultural Interpretation
(2010)Homesteading was how westward expansion began in the United States in 1862. The Homestead Act gave an applicant one hundred sixty acres or one quarter section of undeveloped land outside the original thirteen colonies. The ... -
Reconnect the aging: residential assisted living for the elders in a Great Plains small town
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis project, Reconnect the Aging: Residential Assisted Living for the Elders in a Great Plains Small Town, addresses forgotten and unnoticed elderly in society and how they can be reconnected to the surrounding ... -
Reconnecting to a Forgotten River: An Ecological Solution
(2012)Waterways are a vital and productive resource to our environment. Rivers provide a variety of amenities and services to communities across the world such as drinking water, food, travel, recreation, wildlife habitat, ... -
The Reconnection of Nature and Health
(North Dakota State University, 2023)Healthcare is an ever-changing field and often a field of uncertainty of what will be around the next corner. As of recent we have faced new challenges such as the Covid-19 pandemic where the medical field had to shift ... -
Recovering Life in Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis, Recover(ing)life within architecture, will focus on the question, “How can the design of a rehabilitation center assist in the care that each patient experiences and requires individually in the recovery ... -
The Recovery of St. James: The Journey to Wholeness for the Broken and Addicted
(North Dakota State University, 2017)In the City of Butte, Montana, a rough and economically depressed area, the first hospital of the region now sits in ruin. The Old St. James Hospital will be taken from its current damaged state and transformed into a ... -
Recovery through design
(North Dakota State University, 2015)The aim of this thesis is to investigate and identify the environmental psychological needs of patients receiving treatment for addiction and mental health diseases. The research aims to implement architectural spacial ... -
Recycling the Oil Boom
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis provides some answers to the question, how can a small community sustainably adapt to a localized oil boom? The typology for this examination to the problem is a recycling center. The theoretical premise/unifying ... -
Red River Civic Plaza : an urban park destination for Fargo-Moorhead Community
(2015)The City of Fargo, North Dakota, is funding the construction of a new City Hall to replace their current 1960s structure. This proposed development provides the largest city in North Dakota with a tremendous opportunity ... -
redefine: urban living
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The focus of this thesis, [redefine] is how a building's function can be redefined to suit the changing needs of the community through adaptive reuse. Over time buildings cease to function the way they were originally ... -
Redefining the Cybernetic Being: Reconstructing the Theatrical Origins of the Contemporary Metropolis
(North Dakota State University, 2021)We live in the information age. This means that our collective existence lies within a global society supported by an economy that is almost entirely structured by information technology, the study or use of systems for ... -
The Redesign of Lakeshore Architecture: A Mixed Use Approach to a Single Use Idea
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Boathouses are currently banned in Minnesota do to their effect on our lakeshores, but this may not be the right solution to the issues they face. Just because something is outlawed does not mean that it is entirely bad, ...