Design, Architecture & Art, School of: Recent submissions

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    • Recovering Life in Architecture 

      Patnode, David (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis, Recover(ing)life within architecture, will focus on the question, “How can the design of a rehabilitation center assist in the care that each patient experiences and requires individually in the recovery ...

    • Developing Architectural Methods through Local Built Heritage: a Performing Arts Center in Torres, Brasil. 

      Baierle, Gabriela (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 ...

    • The Center for Equality: an LGBT and Community Resource 

      Fuhs, Justin (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Architecture can facilitate the creation of a comfortable, welcoming and uniting space for its users. This thesis seeks a solution to the need for LGBT-affirming spaces. These spaces are necessary for a minority community ...

    • Urban water: weaving through the layers 

      Saengporm, Ploiphan (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Architecture acts as a tool in creating a healthy environment, a settlement for nourishing culture, whether through the natural or built environment. This thesis is aimed toward an exploration of urban water through ...

    • Emergent Urbanism: Architectural Place-Making in Response to A Minnesota High Speed Train Network 

      Sortland, Nicholas (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      The way existing cities are set up and built is unsustainable, and risky. The bulk of new growth is occurring on the fringe of cities, where the streets and buildings have been designed for the automobile as the primary ...

    • Adaptable Architecture in a Regenerative Medicine Facility 

      Thompson, Courtney (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      The proposed regenerative medicine facility, in downtown Rochester, MN is the platform for investigating how a building can adapt with the expansion of human knowledge. The realization of adaptability in architecture can ...

    • Alpine Impact: Improving Functionality When Structure Is Impacted By Maximum Stresses 

      Bauer, Brittany (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This Thesis will explore how a design solution specific to its geographic location is impacted by natural forces of that region. By providing a proper design solution to accommodate for training and operation of search and ...

    • MindSet 

      Feimer, Whitney (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 ...

    • Inspire - Refugee Center 

      Hussein, Amar (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      In today’s world, many people are forced to flee their homeland due to war, unrest, and persecution. Because of conflict, millions of people worldwide become refugees. Many refugees have experienced persecution, torture, ...

    • Deaf Sight: A New Sound in Architecture : Architecture for the Deaf 

      Specht, Tyler (North Dakota State University, 2013)

    • Waiting for Ruin 

      Conway, Joseph (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This Thesis, Waiting for Ruin, is an examination of how adaptive reuse projects can become an intermediary for overlapping contemporary and historic architecture. Adaptive reuse can be used to revitalize historic but ...

    • Adaptable Architecture: Architecture That Responds to Changing Needs 

      Windschitl, Jacob (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 ...

    • Rural Transitions: A Supplemental Community 

      Mikkonen, Blain (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 ...

    • Supportive Learning: Live, Grow 

      Hausladen, Virginia (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis is an investigation into how design can facilitate and enhance learning for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders. By designing for groups of people with very specific needs, we learn how architecture can ...

    • Holistic hospitality: balancing environmental and humanistic needs 

      Wey, Emma (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis provides some answers to the question, how can innovation and social pedagogy transform the way tourism is conceived, developed and practiced? The Typology for the examination of this problem is a hotel and ...

    • Oil Rush Urbanism: Planning For When the Landscape Is Quiet Again 

      Nolte, Jena Stanton. (2013)
      Williston, ND and surrounding counties are experiencing a tremendous influx of people from all over the United States. Throughout the Williston basin the consequences of over production of infrastructure and housing ...

    • Engineering The Digital Workplace: The Architecture of Changing Social Interaction 

      Lagergren, Eric (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 ...

    • Conspicuous hydrology: The untapped potential of stormwater 

      DuChene, Courtney (2013)
      Freshwater only represents 1% of the total water supply on Earth and is an essential entity for life to exist. Urban development has lead to the pollution and degradation of this essential element. Due to the existing ...

    • Urban Greenway Transformation: Multi-Functional Design Alternatives for the Fargo Community 

      Eisenbraun, David L (2013)
      This study assesses how citywide greenway systems connect and strengthen neighborhoods, provide recreational opportunities, enhance options to use multi-modal transportation, and expand usable green spaces. A pedestrian ...

    • Growth Through the Past: Cooperation of the Past, Present, and Future in Revitalizing Clarissa, Minnesota 

      Johnson, Mallory (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 ...