Browsing Design, Architecture & Art, School of by Subject "Research institutes."
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Adaptable Architecture : architecture that changes through time
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Just as living things grow and adapt, so should the things we create. In this juxtaposition lays the ability to propel our creations into a cyclical lifestyle of rebirth through functionality. Spatial experiences are ... -
Adaptable Architecture in a Regenerative Medicine Facility
(North Dakota State University, 2013)The proposed regenerative medicine facility, in downtown Rochester, MN is the platform for investigating how a building can adapt with the expansion of human knowledge. The realization of adaptability in architecture can ... -
Amplifying Aquatic Thresholds: A Great Lakes Conservation & Research Center on Washington Island, WI
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This Thesis titled “Amplifying Aquatic Thresholds: A Great Lakes conservation research center on Washington Island, WI” investigates the question, “how do natural formations influence the way we interact with a site as a ... -
Aquatic Research Center, Maui, HI
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis project is meant to explore, in architectural terms, the question of “what will happen if water levels continue to rise, and population levels continue to grow at an alarming rate?” This issue will impact all ... -
An Architecture of neuroscience
(North Dakota State University, 2015)The primary objective of this thesis is to explore how an understanding of neuroscience can influence the human perception of the built environment. Advancement in the field of neuroscience has allowed for a greater ... -
Architecture's Impact
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis project, Architecture’s Impact, will aim to find a solution to the question, “How can architecture be used as a tool to educate its inhabitants about environmental issues?” The typology involved in this ... -
Awaking Waters: Central Lakes Limnology Science Center
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Awaking Waters as a thesis project focuses on providing a place for the scientific research of Minnesota's in-land waterways. The project aims to create space the furthers research and is also transparent to the public. ... -
Badlands Agriculture and Environmental Research Center
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This project, titled Badlands Agriculture and Environmental Research Center, is an examination of local agriculture and how it can be reconnected to a larger community. This project fits into a research/living/learning ... -
Becoming the Land: The Synthesis of Architecture and Nature
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Can the creation of natural elements be replicated through our built environment? Can the architecture become an extension of its landscape? Humans have been building and creating architecture for centuries using methods ... -
Biophilia : A Healing Connection
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Throughout recent years more people have been inhabiting cites which creates growth of the built environment and a greater disconnect between humans and nature. It becomes a matter of finding solutions to settle this ... -
Community Design Build
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis provides some answers to the question, how might a restorative community-based residential design build center/curriculum be created where the structure itself resonates with the embedded values of such an ... -
Designing for Chaos: Turning Digital Complexity into a Quantum Science Learning Center
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis will explore the ability of a designer to use the arbitrary relationships generated in complex systems to determine the design of a building. Traditionally, the form of a building is created through a very ... -
Echo: Elemental Architecture as a Method of Cleansing Freshwater in the Wake of Industrialization
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Existing as a force powerful enough to shape the face of the earth, yet delicate enough to sustain the life within our bodies, water is an element with which humans have continuously sought balance. Water has eternally ... -
Ecological Architecture : Reconnecting Environments
(North Dakota State University, 2011)The typology for this facility derived from the problem concerning the separation of environments. The design will incorporate an Ecological Education and Research Center for Sustainable Development (EERCSD) within the ... -
Flood Research Center
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This project will outline research into the flood prevention methods in nature and in the man-made world to translate into a new innovative inland flood research center design in Moorhead, Minnesota. This project was in ... -
From Chaos to the Dinner Table: Transforming the Relationship of Production and Consumption in the Mill District of Minneapolis, MN
(North Dakota State University, 2016)How can the rituals surrounding the dinner table inform our customs of production and consumption to create architectural space that resides in the transformative gap where consumer is producer and producer is consumer? ... -
Material interactions - a center for recombinant waste
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Issues relating to solid waste management and human interaction thrive as a current and future challenge for human existence. Due to the abundance of waste produced within our community, utilizing our advancements in new ... -
Pedagogical Composition : an exploration of global passive practices
(North Dakota State University, 2011)The Industrial Revolution has played a dramatic role in shaping the behavior and the mindset of the American people. Innovations like electricity generation, iron production, and sheet glass production have forever ... -
Soundscape
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis will examine the role of sound in the architectural experience by asking how architecture can improve the standing of sound in the designed environment. Possible solutions are subsequently explored through the ... -
“Steering and salvaging” : an architectural exploration proposal toward automotive recycling and research prototyping
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Automotive design and recycling are essential industries in today’s efforts fighting unsustainability. Yet these industries are too often excluded from one another. I am proposing to design an urban environment automotive ...