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Nuanced didacticism
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The United States is currently at a crossroads with providing equal rights to its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens. Despite the growing acceptance
for these estimated 9 million people, many continue to face ...
“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 ...
A New way to connect to travel
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
This thesis examines how architecture can make mass transit more accessible and desirable to the public and how the public’s wants and needs can improve a transportation center’s design. It examines how making downtown ...
The Genesis Project : exploring the convergence of architecture, music, & life
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Music is an innate human quality that provokes physical, mental, and spiritual responses both consciously and subconsciously, and consequently, has the capacity to change the environment. Architecture can be designed as a ...
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 ...
Unifying Dimensions
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The practice of adaptive reuse can completely transform the way people interact with and perceive an existing building. However, is there a way to interweave the past with the present, perhaps by analyzing the building’s ...
Recovery through design
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The aim of this thesis is to investigate and identify the
environmental psychological needs of patients receiving treatment for addiction and mental health diseases. The research aims to implement architectural spacial ...
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 ...
Adapting an icon : adaptive reuse of downtown movie theaters
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Downtown theaters serve as landmarks for many communities across our region because of their unique design features. Elaborate auditoriums, decorated facades, and flashy, grand marquees are all iconic characteristics of ...
On the living horse : the Fargo Equine Hospital and Education Center
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Horses and humans have been connected throughout history, and each has impacted the other so much that neither species’ history would be the same if the other had not existed. There are countless stories of horse-human ...