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    • Adaptable Architecture : architecture that changes through time 

      Hughes, Kathryn (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 

      Thompson, Courtney (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 ...
    • Adaptive Architecture: Design for a Declining Global Population 

      Sommerfeld, Brian (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      In the face of a declining human population, our ability to plan for and adapt to future circumstances will be essential if we, as a global community, are to not only preserve our built environment, but also ensure its ...
    • Arcology 

      Peterson, Jack (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      Arcology is an approximately 30,000 square foot transit center located within the Ford Site redevelopment plan in St. Paul, MN. The core concept of the project lies in its incorporation of algae, a diverse group of water-based ...
    • Becoming the Land: The Synthesis of Architecture and Nature 

      Axtmann, Matthew (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 ...
    • Community Design Build 

      Pauley, Dani (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 ...
    • Contrasting History 

      Jensen, Jared (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      This graduate thesis examines the inherent meaning in a constructed building and using that to find a new purpose for that building that embraces its style, age, and purpose. Through this connection with history, the ...
    • Designing for a New Way of Living 

      Rausch, Megan (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      This graduate thesis explores the ideas and exploration of creating architecture as an educational instrument that will inform its occupants about a new, more environmentally-friendly way of living. The design itself becomes ...
    • Disassemblable Architecture for Rural Communities 

      Harpstead, Kolby (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      Title: Disassemblable architecture for rural communities Introduction: Our society today has been experiencing a mass migration within its own borders. People are leaving the economically stale rural communities for ...
    • Downtown Development: A Lifestyle Approach 

      Wilke, Travis (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      This thesis provides some answers to the question: how can the implementation by architects of minimal energy consumption and better material utilization in design begin to stop the wasteful ways so prevalent in our current ...
    • Elements of the Office Workspace 

      Stueven, Michael (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      When examining office buildings in the world today, it is proper to look deeper at the correlation between productivity and the environments in which people work. In analyzing the office spaces, studies have shown that ...
    • EOS 1: Evolution of Sustainability 

      Thomas, Jonathan (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      Human interaction is a real need fulfilled by simple communication, verbal or non verbal. Individualism and congregation are part of everyday settings. The built environment has a large influence on how and when these ...
    • Flight: Reducing the Environmental Impact of Air Travel while Incorporating Nature within Architecture 

      Brown, Justin (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      How can an airport be designed to be sustainable, highly efficient, economical and a destination for people to travel to? Often an airport is the first thing people see when traveling to a new place, and all too often the ...
    • Grand Coulee Living and Retail/ An Environmental Approach Towards Sustainable Living 

      Wetch, Christopher R. (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      Will there be a paradigm shift in the way people build and live because of varying economic conditions? The building typology will be a sustainable mid-rise mixed use building. The world’s population currently and in the ...
    • Immigrant Entrepreneurial Development Center 

      Rock, David (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      Can architecture redefine the American Dream by assisting immigrants to establish themselves in a community? This question stemmed from various ideas pertaining to architectural movements and their impacts on the built ...
    • Recycling the Oil Boom 

      Frick, Benjamin (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      This thesis provides some answers to the question, how can a small community sustainably adapt to a localized oil boom? The typology for this examination to the problem is a recycling center. The theoretical premise/unifying ...
    • Reed Street Yards - Milwaukee, Wisconsin 

      Leininger, Bryan (2011)
      This project is meant to explore the idea of low carbon development in cities post global peak oil. Milwaukee, like many other Rust Belt cities across the United States, has passed its industrial peak and today is left ...
    • Regenerative Architecture: Making Nature an Equal Partner in Design 

      Jewison, Zachary (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      The current example in the field of architecture today is one of degeneration and obsolete building technologies. Regenerative architecture is the practice of engaging the natural world as the medium for, and producer of ...
    • Resilience To Our Decaying Urban Infrastructure 

      Benson, Patrick (2011)
      In what ways can environmentally functioning plants reverse the decay of urban infrastructure and reveal the lack of visibility in areas that are left abandoned, unrecognized and unnoticed? The project typology in this ...
    • Resilience: Cooperation of Social and Ecological Systems 

      Corrigan, Patrick (2011)
      Within recent years there has been a monumental awareness put towards environmental sustainability and resilience in response to the effects of humankind's continued imposition on existent ecological processes. Whether ...