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Restart|Retreat: Minnesota Center for the Responsible Use of Technology
(North Dakota State University, 2012)The Minnesota Center for the Responsible Use of Technology is an architectural design for a 20,000 sq ft computer education center in Minneapolis that promotes the responsible use of technology. The design provides for ... -
Restorative Reefs: Preserving the Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve Coral Reefs through Recreational Opportunities and Public Education
(North Dakota State University, 2018)In my thesis I will be going over ways in which as a landscape architect we may develop a solution to the destruction of our oceans. I will be diving deeper in the way we could design a way to help rebuild coral reefs help ... -
Restore: Veteran support facility
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis project, titled Restore, critically analyzes how an architectural experience can have psychological healing effects on service members and their families who have been affected by the repercussions of war and ... -
Restoring Forgotten Land: Degraded Land Restoration
(North Dakota State University, 2023)This thesis will explore the potential of using phytoremediation techniques to reduce PM2.5 pollution in Detroit. The city of Detroit has a long history of industrialization and, as a result, faces significant air pollution ... -
Restoring Veterans Through Companionship: The Study between Rural and Urban Context
(North Dakota State University, 2017)How does design differentiate between rural and urban sites? If the parameters are set and the same program is used for each, which context will be more successful? This thesis focuses on two issues that affect the ... -
Resurgence
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Detroit, Michigan, is on the cusp of the biggest economic crisis of its history. This architectural thesis will seek to blend the elements of socio-economics, cultural relevance and historical significance in order to ... -
Resurgence: Adapting Ecological Succession to Promote Human and Wildlife Interaction
(2016)This work studies the effects of turf grass surrounding rural housing. It examines degree of turf management, the human relationship with nature and turf grass, aesthetics of nature and turf grass, principles of ecological ... -
Resurgent Ecologies: A Blue Design
(2012)This thesis explores a waterless neighborhood in Las Vegas. “Blue design” explores water conservation efforts through design and community planning. The intent of this project is to identify new and innovative ways to ... -
Resurrecting a Community Through the Built Environment: Hudson Road/Mounds Theatre Adaptive-Re-Use
(North Dakota State University, 2006)The design I am proposing will be an adaptive re-use project at the Mounds Theatre in Dayton's Bluff, St. Paul, Minnesota. The thesis project will examine how rejuvenation of existing buildings and urban renewal can recover ... -
Rethinking Shangri-La : Revival of the sustainable courtyard dwellings
(North Dakota State University, 2011)While technology and globalization continue to prevail in every aspect of the world, the scope for the sustenance of regional culture is rapidly disappearing. Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal, hasn’t been left behind ... -
Retrofitting Architectural Environments in Response to an Evolving Workplace
(North Dakota State University, 2023)The typology of this thesis is centered around Architectural Environments within commercial office buildings. The theoretical premise is based on the statement that people are less productive when their work environment ... -
Retrofitting for Change: Fargo
(2010)13th Avenue South Fargo has gradually grown to become the City of Fargo’s commercial and residential hub since the introduction of interstates i-29 and i-94 in the late 1950’s. The region surrounding 13th avenue South has ... -
Retrofitting Suburban Plains: Creating a Walkable Mixed-use Neighborhood for South Fargo
(2016)This thesis aims to retrofit existing infrastructure and future development plans for a south Fargo neighborhood in order to transform the neighborhood into a walkable mixed-use urban center. Walkability is defined by ... -
Return to Symbiosis
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Return to Symbiosis, Montessori Elementary School, Fargo Nd, This thesis looks at the relationship between humans and nature and how humans have come to be parasites to this earth. Also it looks at how an architect can ... -
Returning Home: Collective Dwelling Through Incremental Architecure
(North Dakota State University, 2023)Thomas Moore defined home at three scales: the psyche which shelters our souls, the physical place that we make domesticity in, and the broader metaphysical context in which we find our culture, history, and selves ... -
Returning to Earth: Natural Design for a Cemetery in Otter Tail County, MN
(North Dakota State University, 2021)As awareness of human impact on the environment grows, ethical concerns are raised over the exploitation of natural resources by traditional cemetery design, and burial practices come into question. America’s parks first ... -
Reusing Structure
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis attempts to understand how built structures can evolve over time through use and reuse. It looks at how reusing a space is possible by taking a warehouse structure and reusing it for the new purpose of living ... -
Revealing Light
(North Dakota State University, 2010)How does light reveal? For centuries architects have been using light to express the built environment. Architects have used light to reveal a mood, an object, and even space. A non-denominational chapel seems to express ... -
The Reversible Edge: Traces of Alterity at the Site of Loss, Hart Island, New York
(North Dakota State University, 2021)“We cannot overlook the way in which the Industrial Revolution and its technological consequences have transformed the experience of death in people’s lives.” As discussed by the German Philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer, we ... -
Reviltalize
(North Dakota State University, 2015)The abstract of this project is to study the connection between the human body (mind, body, and soul) and the built environment. This connection is made evident by the historic preservation and adaptation of a building ...