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Emergent Urbanism: Architectural Place-Making in Response to A Minnesota High Speed Train Network
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
The way existing cities are set up and built is unsustainable, and risky. The bulk of new growth is occurring on the fringe of cities, where the streets and buildings have been designed for the automobile as the primary ...
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 ...
Sustainable Connections: A Comprehensive Design of a Energy-Efficient Convention Center
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Sustainable Connections: A Comprehensive Design of a Energy-Efficient Convention Center is a design thesis focused on the issue how can adaptive sustainable methods and technologies be applied to a convention center to ...
Waiting for Ruin
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This Thesis, Waiting for Ruin, is an examination of how adaptive reuse projects can become an intermediary for overlapping contemporary and historic architecture. Adaptive reuse can
be used to revitalize historic but ...
Growth without Expansion: Utilizing Space We Already Have
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This Thesis will look into the underutilized and often overlooked land resource above built cities. The air space above our structures and roads is a frontier that rarely is tapped into. In an attempt to counter urban ...
Recovering Life in Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This thesis, Recover(ing)life within architecture, will focus on the question, “How can the design of a rehabilitation center assist in the care that each patient experiences and requires individually in the recovery ...
Architectural Mediation: Accommodating Private Development & Public Good
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This Thesis, Architectural Mediation, will explore how to answer the question: how can architecture mediate the interests of private development and public good? The design of a combination transit stop, art gallery, and ...
Residential Redux
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Residential Redux is an investigation of the following question, can a new residential/mixed-use complex integrate the traditional assets of a suburban neighborhood, while still addressing its new urban context? This ...
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 ...
Old + New
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
In this thesis the question, how can buildings that no longer serve their original purpose be reused for a new typology in a sustainable way, is worked out and given answers. It will be explored through the typology of a ...