Design, Architecture & Art, School of: Recent submissions
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Desert Soul; Learning Conservation Through Self Revelation
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis, Desert Soul: Learning Conservation through Self Revelation, will focus on an investigation of the question, how can insight from past cultures of the Sonoran Desert inform and direct conservation and sustainability ... -
Cultivate: A Vertical Solution
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis titled “Cultivate: a Vertical Solution” will address the question, “How can architects stop suburban sprawl?” The typology of this project will be a 535,234 sqft high-rise mixed-use vertical farm in Brooklyn ... -
Preserving our History
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This project, Preserving our History, focuses on the integration of green design strategies, energy efficient design and historical preservation for the purpose of restoring neighborhoods within our city limits. Historic ... -
Plug it in: A perpetual living system
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Plug it in explores the question -- are the principles and guidelines of modularity sufficient to accommodate a community and yield a city. The problem will be expressed by the design of a mixed-use potential building with ... -
Rural Decline:Preserving Community
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Rural Decline: Preserving Community. This thesis will focus on the question “How can architecture aid in the preservation and revitalization of rural communities?” Architectural problem solving and community involvement ... -
Hallmark Wellness
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Design elements in the built and natural environment influence how humans react in a space. Penetrating light proves to increase wellness in time. Quality illuminance in health care areas result in better health outcomes. ... -
Cultivating Content
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Cultivating Content aims to uncover truths about current social and environmental dilemmas, while revealing how mass transportation can be used to rectify them. It states that transportation via personal automobile has ... -
Healing By The Sea: An Empirical Study Into Biophilic Design
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis will explore the question, to what extent can biomimicry benefit occupants of a tropical biophilic design? The typology under investigation is a tropical resort with design focus placed on biomimicry, positively ... -
Life, Learning, and Sustainablity
(North Dakota State University, 2012)The thesis Life, Learning, and Sustainablility examines the way in which architects can instill a sense of sentiment towards sustainability in future generations. Architects deplete our resources, and therefore through ... -
By You For You
(North Dakota State University, 2012)By You For You examines how much stimulus is necessary for a space to meet our needs. The typology is a multi-family dwelling. The theoretical premise/unifying idea states that designing merely for basic human needs allows ... -
Urban Arcology
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis is a study into an urban Arcology on the East Bank of the Mississippi River in the Twin Cities, MN. It will explore ideas of Utopia and the ideal that architects attempt to realize each time he/she designs. ... -
Children of the Neon Mirage: Proximity, Duration and Homunculi Space
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis seeks to investigate the relationship of the philosophical ideas of proximity and duration as they relate to architectural expression and representation. In design, linguistic and visual expression and their ... -
Urban Resurrection
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Communities are becoming increasingly aware that current trends of expansive growth are not sustainable. Infill development, or the development of vacant or under-utilized sites within urban areas, can be an alternative ... -
Adaptable Spaces for Changing Paces : Design for Demographic Shifts
(North Dakota State University, 2011)The built environment is currently designed with (only) the present demographic profile in mind. Designing in this manner fails to prepare for changes in demographic profiles and creates an obstacle for users when the ... -
Urban Identity : Frogtown Finds Itself
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Our cities are too often disconnected. They are disconnected in the sense of a failure to relate neighborhoods and districts to each other. This is especially true for cities which lack effective public transportation. ... -
Solvay Coke and Gas
(2011)This project is meant to explore the idea of how Vacant heavy industrial zones can have different uses than existing industrial sites across America. The idea is to use sustainable design to minimize the polution rate, ... -
Resilience: Cooperation of Social and Ecological Systems
(2011)Within recent years there has been a monumental awareness put towards environmental sustainability and resilience in response to the effects of humankind's continued imposition on existent ecological processes. Whether ... -
Social Corridors
(2011)Social Corridors will demonstrate that recreational corridors in communities will increase the social and economic values to residents of a community. The project explores all the fundamental aspects of a passive ... -
Nature of Hospitality
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis searches to provide an answer to the question: how is hospitality expressed in architectural terms and how does this affect our perception of space? The Building Typology for analysis of the problem is a ... -
Mississippi River Adventure
(North Dakota State University, 2011)My project will provide a means of adventure, discovery, and heightened awareness of the cultural, historical, and physical nature of the Mississippi River and surrounding area. The typology will be a “watercraft and ...