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Environmental Synergism
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This thesis researches and examines the impact that an environmental education center would have on the public in a wilderness setting. The public lacks an educational facility that can model a more sustainable way of life ...
Growth Through the Past: Cooperation of the Past, Present, and Future in Revitalizing Clarissa, Minnesota
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This thesis goes on to answer the question of whether a piece of the past can be used as a catalyst for growth in a small community. By adapting a current piece of architecture into a tool that can be used by the residents ...
Urban "Gumbo": A Mixed-Use Public Corridor in Lafayette, Louisiana
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This thesis project invited the exploration of the boundaries between indoor and outdoor spaces.
In fact, a boundary does not need to exist. To explore the impact of architecture in public spaces and an existing urban ...
Adaptable Architecture: Architecture That Responds to Changing Needs
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This thesis explores the use of adaptable architecture and its ability to change to diverse program and user needs. By using flexible and kinetic components in the design of a performing arts center, it can expand the ...
Engineering The Digital Workplace: The Architecture of Changing Social Interaction
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
“Engineering the Digital Workplace” explores how meaningful design can inform, and be informed by, social interaction in an increasingly connected and less private society.
The thesis proposes to create a model for how ...
Rural Transitions: A Supplemental Community
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
The thesis, Rural Transitions, investigates the problem that has become a growing trend as more people move from rural, agricultural areas into suburban or city life. Many of the existing country dwellers are no longer ...
Developing Architectural Methods through Local Built Heritage: a Performing Arts Center in Torres, Brasil.
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Southern Brazilian vernacular building methods contain knowledge that is unique to that particular area of the world. With the implementation of modern techniques and the usage of intuitive design processes, a designer can ...
Organic Branding: Promoting & Enhancing Organic Processes Through Design
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This thesis, Organic Branding, provides answers to the question, “Can interactive and organic product’s processes be promoted or enhanced by architecture?” The typology is an 81,000 square foot innovative urban, mixed-use ...
MindSet
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Society utilizes space as a tool to distance its most challenging and difficult citizens. In examining the question, “How can architecture influence the re-establishment of psychiatric stability in the mentally ill?”, the ...
Reinventing the American Dream: Saving the Suburbs
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This thesis examines the future of suburban environments and tactics for creating a more feasible suburban community through modifications of the existing elements of the site. The suburban environment may be revitalized ...