Browsing Design, Architecture & Art, School of by Subject "Colorado."
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Adaptive Learning Center
(North Dakota State University, 2012)The title of the thesis is Adaptive Learning Center. The building is located in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado and is a 14,000 sq. ft. facility. The typology for this building is an environmental learning center/visitor ... -
Alpine Impact: Improving Functionality When Structure Is Impacted By Maximum Stresses
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This Thesis will explore how a design solution specific to its geographic location is impacted by natural forces of that region. By providing a proper design solution to accommodate for training and operation of search and ... -
Architectural efficiency : designing with user productivity in mind
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Workplace productivity is important to the success and operation of any business. If a business can maximize its productivity, it is more likely to succeed and grow. This is especially true in the restaurant and manufacturing ... -
Carve
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Architecture can be created yhrough natural or built environments. This thesis aims to explore architecture by integrating the built environment within the natural environment. This thesis seeks to identify a significant ... -
Destined: The Evolution of airports through futuristic adaptation.
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Throughout time, humans have considered ourselves nomads, moving from place to place. We seek new horizons of perception, confined only by the bonds of gravity holding us to the face of the earth. Recently, we have stretched ... -
̶d̶̶i̶̶s̶ Abled: A Salutogenic Approach to Design for the Enhancement of the ADA Design Standards in the Built Environment for the Positive Impact on Mental Health of its Inhabitants
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Physical and mental health encompass the overall well-being of a person. However, people seem to immediately observe the physical health of others in society while the concept of “mental health” is left unspoken. The very ... -
Joining Man and Cosmos: A Pinnacle Observatory in South Fork, Colorado
(North Dakota State University, 2016)A fascination with the Cosmos can be traced to time immemorial. It has captured the imagination and inspired both art and science. Ancient man weaved self and cosmos in correspondence between the microcosm and macrocosm ... -
The Myth of sustainable culture : The National Museum of Gems, Metals & Minerals
(North Dakota State University, 2015)As Hans-Georg Gadamer explains, because modern society is so focused on specialization, medicine and health have become disjointed from common knowledge. Similarly, sustainability is often unrealizable to the users of a ... -
[NURTURE]well-being
(North Dakota State University, 2012)The project typology is a community center within an urban city master plan. The project is located in Aurora, Colorado and investigates the problem of disconnected neighborhoods. The theoretical premise claims the ... -
Parks reinvented : an elevated park in an urban setting
(2014)This oasis from the city is atop the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver, CO on 14th Street-right in the heart of the hustle and bustle. Because cities are becoming more and more dense, there is less space to ... -
Sense-a-tecture: An Exploration into Architectural Sensory Experience and Environmental Learning
(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 ...