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Revisiting Residential Design Through Vertical Farming
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis is an investigation of the question, as a city’s population continues to rise, how can residential design assist in meeting the increased demand for food, water, energy and shelter? The typologies for the ... -
Revisiting Riverfronts: Creating Safe Urban Waterfronts That Can be Used Outside of Large Storm Events
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Blue Spaces - areas along rivers, lakes, oceans, etc ... - in Urban Areas have shown to improve pedestrians physical and mental health. Due to climate change these spaces are in danger of becoming deserted and forgotten. ... -
Revitalization
(North Dakota State University, 2016)America has long tried to revitalize cities spending billions of dollars on wasted programs or buildings that do not help solve the problem. The solution should target the root of the problem not just cover it up. This ... -
Revitalizing Small Scale Urban Corridors
(2012)When one visits a small town or city in the Midwest, they will probably notice a sense of pride in the community. However, when rapid change, whether it long or short term, impacts the community, it can leave the residents ... -
Revitalizing Urban Corridors: Synergy Park
(2011)The premise of this project is to investigate the current relationship of downtown Minneapolis to the surrounding urban sprawl. From the expansion of the freeway and its connection to these areas, the city is a hub for ... -
Reviving the Commotion of a Community 52 Broadway: Urban Development Through Creative Design
(North Dakota State University, 2005)This paper describes the nature of an urban development project in downtown Fargo. The challenge of creating new architecture within a historic section of a city makes for an interesting project and allows for a creative ... -
Revolution
(North Dakota State University, 2021)How can we design stadiums to better serve their communities: visually, physically, and financially? In the last decade, there has been a trend in the United States to design and build soccer-specific stadiums for Major ... -
Ritual : Enhancing the Modern Athlete
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This project illustrates how ritual influences the construction, function, and experience of architecture. Ritual is essential in our everyday life and it is vital to that architecture contributes to ritual. This project ... -
Rivers Edge: An Adult Participatory Net Zero Community
(North Dakota State University, 2017)“It is truly a democratic building. Nearly everyone who lives and works on the site has a hand in determining how it performs.” - jv DeSousa We live in a time of social change - we have been given the challenge of ... -
RKO Ruins & the Surreal Fragment: Dreams, Film, and Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2021)This thesis explores the primacy of dreams on our experience through the space of literature, film, and architecture. In contrast to the modern definition of “reality,” much of our waking experience is structured in the ... -
Roberts Alley Revamp: Introducing and Implementing Pedestrian Design Principles (Complexity, Transparency & Human Scale) in Fargo, ND
(2017)Alleys are underutilized as contemporary pedestrian thoroughfares because they have historically served to hide the utilitarian functions of urban life. Thus, the narrow spaces fail to provide the necessary amenity required ... -
The Rolling Greens Community: Planning for a Community With Social and Ecological Value
(North Dakota State University, 2023)Over the last few years the number of golf courses that have closed has grown exponentially. The understanding that golf courses aren’t of the highest priority needs to get out to the people who it matters most to. The ... -
Ruin : the library reimagined
(North Dakota State University, 2015)In his readings, “On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life” Friedrich Nietzsche discusses how a “critical approach to history” allows the past to be used as a vital force for future life and action. Such assumptions ... -
Rumination on a Post Humanist Forum: Creating a New Forum for the 21st Century, Fargo, North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2006)Rumination on a post humanist forum is a new typology for Fargo, ND. The theoretical premise: the examination of what it means to store and access information today and in the future. The buildings total gross net is ... -
Rural Decline:Preserving Community
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Rural Decline: Preserving Community. This thesis will focus on the question “How can architecture aid in the preservation and revitalization of rural communities?” Architectural problem solving and community involvement ... -
Rural Transitions: A Supplemental Community
(North Dakota State University, 2013)The thesis, Rural Transitions, investigates the problem that has become a growing trend as more people move from rural, agricultural areas into suburban or city life. Many of the existing country dwellers are no longer ... -
The Sacred Qualities of the Mundane: Using Music and Architecture to Achieve Harmony in the Workplace
(North Dakota State University, 2018)This thesis project is intended to critique the daily ritual we fall into has humans. We wake up, go to work, come home and to do it all again tomorrow. How can we design the workplace to be a space that makes you want to ... -
Safe Harbor: Recontextualizing Architectural Design to Engage Society in Combating Human Trafficking
(North Dakota State University, 2021)As one of the fastest growing and most lucrative criminal enterprises, human trafficking involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to lure victims into labor or commercial sexual exploitation. Minnesota faces widespread ... -
The Salmon Run: A Restoration & Recreation Plan for the Valley Creek Watershed in Port Angeles, WA
(2016)This thesis studies the life cycle needs of salmon and asks the question, how can we restore a river to be viable for salmon habitat as well as promote positive human interaction? As an indicator species, salmon are ... -
Saudade - rethinking deathcare
(North Dakota State University, 2015)This thesis explores the manner in which architecture can more sympathetically respond to people in a time of loss and grievance. Through adaptively repurposing a historic structure in Minneapolis, MN, a crematory and ...