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    • Rivers Edge: An Adult Participatory Net Zero Community 

      Schimke, Ian (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 

      Contreras, Maria Valentina (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 

      Horn, Alysa (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 

      Williams, Andrew (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 

      Erickson, Samuel (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 

      Evans, Katie L. (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 

      Kieper, Jacob (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 

      Mikkonen, Blain (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 

      Walbolt, David (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 

      Stroh, Anna (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 

      Nyquist, Ellie (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 

      Schrader, Alex (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 ...
    • Science Museum of Fargo: A Study of the Social Values of Cultural Buildings 

      Draeger, Douglas R. (North Dakota State University, 2005)
      There are certain values that have been assigned throughout history to cultural buildings that are dedicated to the arts and sciences. The result of a search to further understand these values will lead to architectural form ...
    • Scientific discovery + Designing the science museum of the future 

      Bukowski, Dennis (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      This thesis demonstrated the connection between how children and adults learn about science, as well as the connection between science and technology in modern building design. By looking at the scientific advancements of ...
    • Seattle's Urban Water 

      Kroll, Zerek (2012)
      The issue of stormwater runoff is a major threat to the water supply of Seattle, Washington. Continual rain and great expanses of impervious surfaces cause contamination and pollution to riddle the waters of the Puget ...
    • Seeds To Grow | A Community led greenway 

      Riley, Jesse (2012)
      Project-based learning can positively influence community in the normally reactionary design of a riparian greenway. This thesis examines how a greenway system can affect a community by allowing its residents to play an ...
    • Selling the system 

      Herzog, Andrew (2014)
    • Sense-a-tecture: An Exploration into Architectural Sensory Experience and Environmental Learning 

      White, Christopher (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      Our world is built up of individual parts. Each part is unique by itself, but it is the process of bringing them together that makes up our experience as a whole. There is more to a forest than the texture of bark. We use ...
    • Senseful design 

      Lenz, Chelsea (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      This thesis - senseful design - explores the relationship that our five senses have with architecture. Can a holistic design for our senses create a more meaningful experience with architecture? This question is answered ...
    • Sensitive Significance 

      Anderson, Kerry (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      This thesis studies the question of how the quality of the built environment affects all aspects of well-being in its users. The topic will be explored through mixed method research with an emphasis on the relationships ...