Design, Architecture & Art, School of: Recent submissions

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    • Fresh Place Market: A Permanent Farmer's Market Solution Supporting the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area 

      Coryell, Jake (2013)
      Current farmers and individual food producers are struggling for spatial identity and social legitimacy in a larger food network that currently exists in America. Much of the current research only focuses on consumer and ...

    • The Soup Bowl in the City of Lakes 

      Gronhovd, John (2013)
      Minneapolis residents value parks for many contributions to the public realm – as a green escape from the city, as opportunities for recreation, as places to gather – but few people think of parks as infrastructure, as ...

    • Mind healing center: a place for alleviating depression 

      Singh, Prashanta (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Architectural details, can brighten the mood of a person. A healing design might show a clearer method of refreshing the minds of clients. The quality of the spaces would magnify importance on selection of color, texture, ...

    • Snowboarding: Fitting Use or Urban Abuse? 

      Gruhot, Philip (2013)
      Central Hillside Park in Duluth, Minnesota is an often desolate park in the heart of downtown. My design seeks to create a new type of project, an urban snowpark in which every part of the urban block can be ridden compared ...

    • Growing & Aging- a new way of connecting generations 

      Lillegaard, Sara (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      “Growing and Aging: a new way of connecting generations,” is an exploration of a new architectural typology that tries to fill in the generation gap existing between young people and our aging society. When looking at the ...

    • Fostering Responsible Behavior 

      AlQattan, Ali (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Educated children must comprehend what their duties towards the environment are and start fostering responsible behavior seriously. If children go to school with means to learn science, literature, etc. they might as well ...

    • The Activated Medium: Modern Architectural Representation and Transposition 

      Benke, Brad (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis explores the role of the modern architectural representation and its changing relationship to the act of making. The investigation will seek and test outlets for architectural representations to operate under ...

    • Growth without Expansion: Utilizing Space We Already Have 

      Flotterud, Paul (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This Thesis will look into the underutilized and often overlooked land resource above built cities. The air space above our structures and roads is a frontier that rarely is tapped into. In an attempt to counter urban ...

    • Social Adaptation: Changing the Built Environment 

      Schneider, Luke (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Social Adaptation examines ways in which a building can adequately respond to the advancement of computing technology and social media dominance. Overwhelming access to computing technology and social media not only changes ...

    • Learning to Play in Nature; an Urban Playground for Adolescents 

      Gurath, Priscilla (2013)
      This project examines the problems surrounding the increase in adverse health related issues directly relating to the decrease in society’s physical activity and exercise opportunities for adolescents in their immediate ...

    • Reinventing the American Dream: Saving the Suburbs 

      Galloway, Michael (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 ...

    • Vacant Mainstreet 

      Booth, David (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis, Vacant Main Street, will focus on a building’s ability to affect its surrounding community. Can a building be the spark that revitalizes a dying Main Street? The Main Street of St. Croix Falls, WI is ...

    • Aquatic Research Center, Maui, HI 

      Lacek, Kyle (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis project is meant to explore, in architectural terms, the question of “what will happen if water levels continue to rise, and population levels continue to grow at an alarming rate?” This issue will impact all ...

    • Architectural Mediation: Accommodating Private Development & Public Good 

      Lockwood, Sarah (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This Thesis, Architectural Mediation, will explore how to answer the question: how can architecture mediate the interests of private development and public good? The design of a combination transit stop, art gallery, and ...

    • Urban Transitions: making connections between transportation to the livable environment 

      Olson, Adam (2013)
      The dependence on personal vehicles for transportation continues to grow for Americans. This has changed the shape of our cities toward automobile oriented transportation over the past decades. In return cities have been ...

    • White and Black, No Room For Gray: Why We Need Contrast To Be Green 

      Aubol, Richard (2013)
      The American Dream is to have a good job in the city, a house and family on your own parcel in a good suburb and nice car or three in the driveway; the bigger the property the better. When one looks at the modern city in ...

    • Amplifying Aquatic Thresholds: A Great Lakes Conservation & Research Center on Washington Island, WI 

      Gemlo, Rachel (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This Thesis titled “Amplifying Aquatic Thresholds: A Great Lakes conservation research center on Washington Island, WI” investigates the question, “how do natural formations influence the way we interact with a site as a ...

    • Through a Technical Lens 

      Martin, Craig (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Through a Technical Lens will examine how architecture can facilitate advances in modern astronomical technique and equipment, specifically in the building typology of observatories and visitor centers. This design of an ...

    • Portside: Promoting Growth Through Urban Tourism 

      Hochhalter, Dustin (2013)
      Shifts in tourism over the last forty years have evolved and gone back to large urban cities, and as a result the practice of urban tourism has grown and been moved to the forefront of many city planning efforts. Urban ...

    • Virtual Space | Creating A Digital Sense of Place 

      Williams, Jacob (2013)
      The recent advancements in computer technology in the 21st century have changed the way many designers work in offices today. New computer software has allowed us to actualize works of landscape architecture that could ...