Design, Architecture & Art, School of: Recent submissions
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Empty Spaces: Architecture Healing the Emptiness within Victims of Abuse and Sexual Exploitation
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Just as death is underrepresented in modern society, women who have been exploited in abuse, domestic violence, stalking, rape, and sex trafficking have also become underrepresented. A voice needs to be given to these ... -
Vanlife: Creating Community on the Road
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Van life is an ever-growing movement across North America and the rest of the world. Driven by high costs of living, mundane desk jobs, poor quality of life, and the urge to be free, thousands of people are packing up ... -
Sustainable Convenience
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Globally, society is on the cusp of substantial environmental changes. These changes start with insight into the current state of the environment, mindset changes that need to be made, then to the necessary lifestyle changes. ... -
The Psychological Impact of Architectural Design
(North Dakota State University, 2020)The theory of this thesis is to consider the relationship between the built environment and its psychological impact. The average person spends about 80-90% of their time indoors. Space, colors, aesthetics, materials, ... -
On the Edge of Empathy: Amplifying the Veteran's Voice
(North Dakota State University, 2020)We live in a world of physical and conceptual edges that guide and shape our lives, and challenge us every day to choose whether to cross them or to remain within their shepherding corrals. Often we forget that edges ... -
Architecture as Prosthesis: A Cultural Reimagination of Disability on Boston Harbor
(North Dakota State University, 2020)How does architecture approach disability? Might this play a role in forming our cultural beliefs? Increasingly specialized attitudes of the modern era, critiqued by Hans-Georg Gadamer, move us to approach disability ... -
Wellness Through Adaptive Reuse
(North Dakota State University, 2020)The International Existing Building Code (IEBC) was first created alongside the International Building Code (IBC) in 1997 to address health and safety concerns in the built environment based upon prescriptive and ... -
Transcending Borders
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Despite the popularity of border issues in today’s media, the spatial transformation, which borders create remain unrecognized. The Thesis discusses the relationship between architecture and borders. Borders are much ... -
Teens: Let's Give Them Some Space
(North Dakota State University, 2020)At a time when we can find numerous divisions between ourselves and the next person, there is one thing that every adult has in common: we were once a teenager. Like any experience, being a teenager comes with moments ... -
Reinvigorating a Conversation About Nature Through Architecture: Mitigating Climate Change and Ecological Disaster
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Because the perception of Nature has shifted over the course of human civilization - from a living “Thou” to an externalized “It” - this project seeks to reinvigorate a more essential interaction with the natural environment. ... -
A New Generation2: The Improper Appropriation of the Modern Housing Market in Today’s Society, Taking a Look at a New Generation’s Necessities and Ambitions
(North Dakota State University, 2020)In many cities throughout the USA, recent graduates have to deal with increasing rent prices with a very limited income. Standard apartment buildings and other types of dwellings are fairly standard with space and cost. ... -
The Evolution of Wonder Through History: Reopening the Realm in Seven Mythic Experiments of Technological Interconnection
(North Dakota State University, 2020)As Henri Frankfort suggests, the sense of interconnection between ancient people, nature, and the cosmos, was perceived as a living “Thou”. As humanity has advanced this emphasis on interconnection has faded from something ... -
Designing for Outsiders: Building a Sustainble Future for Keaau
(North Dakota State University, 2020)How tolerant are we of people outside our community? Our ingrained instincts drive us as humans to seek positive interactions, to feel accepted and appreciated, to find purpose to help us thrive as individuals and as a ... -
Using Poetic Language to Restore the American Metropolis by Examining the Difference Between What is Real and Imaginary
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Public interaction over the years has changed in many ways. Dating back to ancient roman civilization, the public life had been important to the typical man. Spreading and sharing of ideas, exchange of goods, questioning ... -
Architectural Sign Language
(North Dakota State University, 2020)American Sign Language is not transparent, one cannot understand it until ones learn is. It takes many years of study and interaction with people who use it to be able to properly learn a language. As a student who ... -
Climate Refuge: Thermal Comfort in Urban Micro Climates
(North Dakota State University, 2020)This study addresses two major issues by responding to the significant decline in retail buildings including enclosed shopping malls and improving density, livability and human comfort in communities welcoming climate ... -
From Brownfield to Permaculture City: Converting a Brownfield Site by Creating a New Community Through Increased Density and Sustainable Permaculture.
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Sustainable, permaculture living is a recurring trend in residential design. Society is becoming more aware of the impact humans have on the environment, along with learning ways to minimize an ecological footprint while ... -
Fargo: Growing Upward: A Neon Living Wall
(North Dakota State University, 2020)There is an emotional connection humans have with plants and the aesthetics of natural elements that can directly influence our mood, productivity, and overall happiness. Emotional factors can directly impact and change a ... -
Bismarck-Mandan Rail Bridge Park: Using Private-Public Infill to Create a Destination Waterfront Park in the City of Bismarck, North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2020)This study focuses on the preservation of the Bismarck-Mandan rail bridge and surrounding 200-acre site as a catalyst to transform the waterfront of North Dakota’s capital city into a 21st-Century urban park. Announced ... -
Sustainable Framework for Lakeshore Communities
(North Dakota State University, 2020)This study explores the 9-mile-long shoreline, along with the 700 acres of water in Lake Mitchell. The City of Mitchell has 15,600 people surrounding the polluted lake in South Dakota. Lake Mitchell's water is toxic, so ...