Design, Architecture & Art, School of: Recent submissions

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    • The Human Senses: Designing Beyond Intuition 

      Lipatan, April (2013)
      This thesis project will explore how multi-sensory experiences can be merged with landscape architecture as a supplement to communicate the meaning of place. The problem of landscape architects not fully understanding the ...

    • Transforming an Urban Corridor: Bus Rapid Transit on Lake Street 

      Neuenschwander, Emily (2013)
      The Midtown Corridor is a culturally diverse, commercial district within the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota that is currently undergoing analysis for proposed transit alternatives. This site was selected because of its ...

    • Compressed Agriculture Initiative 

      Homic, Thomas (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Increasingly within urban population growth there is a greater demand on the agricultural resources needed to keep these populations properly fed. As these stresses on the agricultural space and supply chain increase, ...

    • Steam Baths 

      Johnson, Jeremiah (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Today, architecture constitutes the greatest range of the built environment; yet our buildings are causing physiological and mental stress to the public. If architecture is designed intuitively by engaging the public’s ...

    • New Productive Landscapes: Designing for Sustainable Urban Food 

      Thomas, Nathan (2013)
      As of 2008 over half of the world’s population is now living in cities, and the number is expected to swell to approximately five billion in the next twenty to thirty years. As the volume of people living in cities rises, ...

    • Sustainable Connections: A Comprehensive Design of a Energy-Efficient Convention Center 

      Kautzman, Alexis (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 ...

    • Structures Becoming Shadows: Evoking An Empathetic Perception Through The Construction of Mourning 

      Ward, Megan (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      The thesis responds to the constructive thought and perception around death and the mourning and grieving processes of life. The typology being a crematorium/columbarium will emphasize this inevitable process in life and ...

    • Transforming Voids 

      Koenig, Grant (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis will begin to explain the benefits of building new residential architecture in harmony with our social communities to provide a redevelopment of housing in downtwon Fargo. By studying how developments in the ...

    • Promoted ecological Migration: Preserving San Francisco Bay’s Tidal Wetlands 

      Scheffler, J. Louie (2013)
      The intent of this research is to preserve and increase the resiliency of the native landscape in and around San Jose, California in regards to natural and man induced changes. Habitat near San Jose has been suffering from ...

    • The growing city: an exploration in high density living 

      Kierzek, Drew (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      The goal of this thesis is to explore the effects on a city’s density in correlation with the needs of that city. In certain areas, there is a growing need of housing. This absence results in longer commutes and less ...

    • Cass County Energy Interpretive Center 

      Rajapakse, Shanaka (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis examines the feasibility of conducting an alternative educational center parallel to the Cass County Electric Cooperative and its operations. Promoting renewable energies and educating the Community with ...

    • Designing for Chaos: Turning Digital Complexity into a Quantum Science Learning Center 

      Anderson, Ari (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 ...

    • Permeable Layering 

      Schultz, Samantha (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      DESIGN WITH layering. The layering creates spaces that are safe, disconnected and protected from the outside. This is shown and felt through the creation of pathways and connections to spaces that are cut through the ...

    • Urban "Gumbo": A Mixed-Use Public Corridor in Lafayette, Louisiana 

      Pickett, Courtney (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 ...

    • Accessibility Through Design 

      Schwarzkopf, Erik (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis, Accessibility Through Design, will seek to explore the question: How can the design of a long-term care facility help promote physical and social accessibility of the elderly within an urban fabric, so as to ...

    • Building Senses: A Fresh Look At A Meaningful Retirement Community For The People Of Zhengzhou, China 

      Liu, Zhe (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis will rethink elderly people’s needs and according to that, design a building that responds to the physical and psychological aspects of the elderly population in the urban setting. The typology of this building ...

    • Longevtiy: Urban Retirement Living 

      Kolpack, Sara (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis, Longevity, studies the ability to create a place to dwell that improves the quality, longevity, and ability to heal those that inhabit its walls all the while residing within and urban setting. The typology ...

    • Brewing Up a Community 

      Huebsch, John (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis begins to answer the question: through design how can different zoning types, such as commercial and industrial, be built to create a hybrid structure that would complement each zoning type? The Typology used ...

    • Catalyzing Tourism: Through Integration of Cultural Heritage 

      Twogood, Derek (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis investigates the question, “How can architecture reflect a region’s cultural heritage and work as a catalyst for tourism?” The typology for the examination of this problem is a resort style hotel. The idea ...

    • Virtual Space in a Physical World 

      Krugerud, Devin (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      A small exposition center for St. Paul, MN. This project explores various design strategies with glass, steel, and suspension. Through the study of video game design techniques architecture can be developed in an entirely ...