Design, Architecture & Art, School of: Recent submissions
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Sustainable Engagement
(North Dakota State University, 2015)This thesis is my solution to how architecture can influence individuals to learn and live in a sustainable environment that excites its users. I have redefined sustainability as, “a social change involving individuals, ... -
Neural redoubt
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Increased numbers of returning service members from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF) coincide with budgetary sequestration measures which directly impact the Department of Defense, jeopardizing ... -
Washington Avenue Bridge : a technocentric approach to celebrating the Mississippi River through rhythm and space
(2014)There is a measurable, scientifically proven link between space and memory (Hoelscher, 2004). This means that education is highly sensitive towards the quality of the study environment, especially when it is a space that ... -
The Labyrinth Studies: Exhibiting Culture through Art & Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Our institutions are predicated on a stable and predictable ground on which to enact our daily affairs. Because architecture embodies our social, cultural, and political beliefs and values, when these beliefs become ... -
Architecture and the Body: Integrating Fitness in the Modern Urban Center
(North Dakota State University, 2014)History reveals the human body in a way that differs greatly from today’s understanding. Through the artefacts of ancient architectural constructs, art, and literature we can see that the body was once articulated as an ... -
Adaptability and Design
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis project, Adaptability and Design, investigates the following question, how can design be adaptable with society’s technological growth within an educational facility? This proposal’s main emphasis is to challenge ... -
redefine: urban living
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The focus of this thesis, [redefine] is how a building's function can be redefined to suit the changing needs of the community through adaptive reuse. Over time buildings cease to function the way they were originally ... -
Environments for Aging
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis examines alternative living environments for the fast growing population of baby boomers heading into retirement. The main idea is to use sustainable design within a natural environment to stimulate the well ... -
Emerging Connections : developing transit corridors in Minneapolis - St Paul
(North Dakota State University, 2014)There is a new era coming to University Avenue on the rails of the new Green Line light rail extension. In position to create an important connection between Minneapolis and St. Paul, and to enhance the already existing ... -
Reawakening Cultural Significance: Ruin Exploration in its Full Embodiment
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis aims to evoke a “historical consciousness” through the embodied experience of architecture. Specifically speaking, this architecture will reawaken the history of the Native American culture through creative ... -
Exploring the Relationships of Bruges, Music, and the Space Between
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis explores music and art in Bruges, Belgium and how it has shaped the city to become what it is today. It is only through this awareness of the past, and how it relates to the present, that new pieces can be ... -
Lake Street Teen Center
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The Lake Street Teen Center addresses the question how can design positively impact a place susceptible to delinquent behavior? The Typology for the investigation of this problem is a center for teens. The Theoretical ... -
Edges of the Mind: Reconstructing an Urban Pontos
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Edge-world. The horizon of our lived reality, this material world within which we all exist, is one composed of edges and defined by them, an edge-world. To consider the nature of a town, of a city, of any conceivable ... -
Revisiting Residential Design Through Vertical Farming
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis is an investigation of the question, as a city’s population continues to rise, how can residential design assist in meeting the increased demand for food, water, energy and shelter? The typologies for the ... -
Dreaming and Perceiving: An Approach to Dwelling in the City
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis aims to answer the question; how can we slow down our perception of city living to create an appropriate setting that reinterprets aspects of community living into an urban setting? The typology is a mixed use ... -
Kinetic Morphology of Performance Space
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This is a study of how spaces change from one typology into a completely opposite one. The main typology is stage performance with immense requirements which demand the use of advanced technology and automation. The project ... -
Water : the spirit of life
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis will investigate the correct balance between water and architecture that creates a serene environment for the public. Water is seen in today's day and age as a raw material that we humans always have at our ... -
Theatric depth : the theatre and the public
(North Dakota State University, 2014)My Thesis explores the way architecture can evoke a more meaningful relationship to the public realm. The project will attempt to reawaken a “space of participation” by challenging the changing understudy of public and ... -
Light and shadow : experiential boutique resort
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis explores the question, “How can the manipulation of light and shadow through texture affect the experience of a space?” The typology for this thesis is a experiential boutique resort which is located within the ... -
Architecture as desire : exploring the origins of our desire to hear music
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Our mind is subconsciously entertained and potentially enslaved by classification into categories. A typology is a system used for putting things into groups according to how they are similar and architecture has equally ...