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Mississippi River Adventure
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
My project will provide a means of adventure, discovery, and heightened awareness of the cultural, historical, and physical nature of the Mississippi River and surrounding area. The typology will be a “watercraft and ...
Contrasting History
(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 ...
Urban Paths
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
The typology for this thesis project will be a hybrid transit center. Public awareness on the effects that vehicles and buildings have on the environment is a large component to this project. This will be done through a ...
ACTUATED ARCHITECTURE : Driving Healthy Behavior With Design
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
The mere sight of architecture can create a behavioral response, so through research, this thesis seeks to develop a better understanding of architecture’s impact on health and wellness. Architecture can create sensory ...
[re]DUX : adaptive architecture, [re]use & mixed use
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This thesis examines the implications a building’s history/past has on its future development. It is guided by
the idea that some structures are
more capable than others in making
the transition from one function ...
Urban Identity : Frogtown Finds Itself
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
Our cities are too often disconnected. They are disconnected in the sense of a failure to relate neighborhoods and districts to each other. This is especially true for cities which lack effective public transportation. ...
Rethinking Shangri-La : Revival of the sustainable courtyard dwellings
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
While technology and globalization continue to prevail in every aspect of the world, the scope for the sustenance of regional culture is rapidly disappearing. Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal, hasn’t been left behind ...
Delight in Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This project explores delight in buildings and how we experience them. It states that the personality of a building as exhibited in individual traits is what we find delight in, as humans tend to personify things they ...
Adaptable Spaces for Changing Paces : Design for Demographic Shifts
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
The built environment is currently designed with (only) the present demographic profile in mind. Designing in this manner
fails to prepare for changes in demographic profiles and creates an obstacle for users when the ...
chain reaction
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This chain reaction thesis will be created by the necessity of human interaction. It is both an examination of human connection as well as spatial configurations. This will show how human connections are crucial to growth ...