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Recycling the Oil Boom
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Resilience To Our Decaying Urban Infrastructure
(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 ...
Social Corridors
(2011)
Social Corridors will demonstrate that recreational corridors
in communities will increase the social and economic values to
residents of a community. The project explores all the fundamental aspects of a passive ...
Solvay Coke and Gas
(2011)
This project is meant to explore the idea of how Vacant heavy industrial zones can have different uses than existing industrial sites across America. The idea is to use sustainable design to minimize the polution rate, ...
Resilience: Cooperation of Social and Ecological Systems
(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 ...
Reed Street Yards - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
(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 ...
Sustainable Lakeshore Development : Integrating Lakeshore Ecosystems into the Urban Environment
(2011)
This project is meant to explore sustainable lakeshore design ideas within private and public community property that share a common water body resource. A community surrounding a water body forms a social-ecological ...
Sustainable Growth and Redevelopment of Wadena: Evoking a Meaningful Change
(2011)
The general public often delude themselves into thinking that the landscapes we design are implicitly sustainable, though they frequently are not. We, as designers, must make known, and take responsibility for, the ...