Design, Architecture & Art, School of: Recent submissions
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Harmony A-new : alternative high school design
(North Dakota State University, 2012)The typology of this thesis is a 14,440 sq foot public high school for underprivileged students of the Chicago Public School system. This thesis is an exploration of the potential for architecture to promote the overall ... -
Outbreak File: Sibley County
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis, Outbreak File: Sibley County, researches and examines the ecological footprint in order to describe an efficient way to design and protect communities from the threat of a zombie apocalypse. Discovering how ... -
Urbanscape Revitalization
(2012)This thesis will seek to explore how Landscape Architecture, through strategic urban design and planning, can be instrumental to improving the unstable population within Urban communities. Such horrific decay of urban areas ... -
Processing Lines: Evoking a Critical Consciousness In the Production of Architectural Representation
(North Dakota State University, 2012)The intention of this thesis is to explore ways in which the emphasis placed on hyper-realistic depictions of reality influence the architects true understanding of the built reality in which he or she lives. The architecture, ... -
Micro Community
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This book examines what occurs when we let the cycles of mother nature take precedent in the way we design through responsive creation of a small community on the banks of the Red River. As architects in the 21st century, ... -
Nature in Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis provides answers to the question: How can we, as architects, make a building of the environment in which it is built? The typology for the examination of this problem is multi-family housing. The theoretical ... -
ethos-mores architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis provides some answers to the question, how, as an outsider, do we begin to understand cultural values that are not ours and how does one measure the degree of threat to a minority culture when cultural values ... -
Desalination and Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis project will focus on how a desalination plant can benefit the environment. As population grows, climate changes, and local water scarcity heighten, desalination of brackish water and seawater is increasingly ... -
Emphasis on Nature
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis “Emphasis on Nature” will attempt to create an atmosphere that provides better healing and a more vital quality of life for people dealing with cancer. The healing process is different for every person, and ... -
Developing a Dialectic
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This project, titled Developing a Dialectic, began as an analysis of the tangible evidence of time within a built environment, specifically the changing paths on which we experience our cities and the objects and spaces ... -
Sustaining Rural Communities
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Sustaining Rural Communities This thesis analyzes the use of sustainable architecture to satisfy the socio-economic needs of a rural community. The research methodology used to create this project is a mixed-method, ... -
Design for Bereavement
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This project seeks to explore how the built environment can create a healthy atmosphere for grieving the death of a loved one by examining psychological research to develop the form of the building, a space can be created ... -
Digital Oasis
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis approaches the issue “As technology further develops our abilities to communicate across distance, what role will public space play, if any, in the future shaping of our cities?” The Theoretical Premise/ Unifying ... -
Parametric Animation
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This project, Parametric Animation, aims to test the potential of parametric structures as an architectural design tool. Although this tool is not new in the architectural design community, the variety of its applications ... -
Urban Water: Seeking Cultural, Economic, and Environmental Connections
(2012)Water is an essential element for human life, not only is it a biological requirement of the human body, it is also an inherent part of our everyday lives. It is so common in everyday life that it is being overused. Due ... -
Designing Through Disaster
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis project is about how we can provide a cost and time effective source of emergency housing for those just affected by a natural disaster. Natural disasters rarely have a warning signal to them, and even when ... -
Seeds To Grow | A Community led greenway
(2012)Project-based learning can positively influence community in the normally reactionary design of a riparian greenway. This thesis examines how a greenway system can affect a community by allowing its residents to play an ... -
Architecture for Community: Redefining Social Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis investigates the question: can architecture create a sense of place and dignity amongst the homeless community? The typology for examination of this problem will be a hybrid of a transitional housing facility, ... -
Assembling the Pieces
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis will research and examine the impact that a mental treatment center would have on the chronic mentally ill community by creating a diversion from incarceration and homelessness by offering the necessities of ... -
Social Network Housing
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Social Network Housing aims to examine the phenomenon of the social network and the emerging technology of augmented reality. The social network has become a driving force in shaping how we communicate with each other. The ...