Design, Architecture & Art, School of: Recent submissions
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Urban Endemics: Protecting Imperiled Species
(2011)This thesis project will explore the requirements for a botanical garden and associated grounds, within the city of Fargo, North Dakota. A key element includes the addition of micro-climates suitable for the introduction/ ... -
Community, Resilience and Wetlands
(2011)Through a wetland introduction and interaction, residents can be educated and benefit in a socio-ecological manner. I want to create a place in Woodbury, Minnesota that uses a wetland to not only enhance the beautification ... -
Resilience To Our Decaying Urban Infrastructure
(2011)In what ways can environmentally functioning plants reverse the decay of urban infrastructure and reveal the lack of visibility in areas that are left abandoned, unrecognized and unnoticed? The project typology in this ... -
Diverse Community Center - Fargo, ND
(2011)The purpose of this thesis is to create and design a place for extraordinary activities for people of diverse cultures and backgrounds within the Fargo-Moorhead metropolitan area. Fargo is a continually developing city ... -
body soul inHABIT
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis investigates the human body and its proportions in relation to the comfort and security experienced within a space. This thesis also takes a deeper analytical look at how the treatment of our own bodies has ... -
Reed Street Yards - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
(2011)This project is meant to explore the idea of low carbon development in cities post global peak oil. Milwaukee, like many other Rust Belt cities across the United States, has passed its industrial peak and today is left ... -
Sensory Architecture : Redefining How One Interprets Space
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This design thesis will address the question: how do combinations of our senses influence the way we interact with our surrounding built environment? The typology chosen to evaluate this question is an addition to an ... -
Systems for Social Change
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Through the design of low-income housing in Fargo, North Dakota, this thesis will reevaluate the relationship between market forces and architecture, seeking to develop a new system for housing the low-income sector and ... -
Dwelling up|on the Dock
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis project will explore the aspects of dwellings that can contribute to making the floor plan more efficient through flexibility and adaptation to the users and environment. -
Architectural Asset Development
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis attempts to elucidate the connection between architecture and how well students perform academically and socially based on how much pleasure they attain from the architecture of their high school campus. The ... -
Events Machine
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis explores the relation between narrative and (im)material: investigating traditional means of making architectural media while testing and generating representation with film (narrative) in the pursuit of a ... -
Building Within Our Bounds
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This graduate thesis explores where waste (or unutilized material) is being produced in the design methodology of a mixed-use building in Fargo, ND. There is waste produced in the construction process that is inevitable, ... -
Adaptable Architecture : architecture that changes through time
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Just as living things grow and adapt, so should the things we create. In this juxtaposition lays the ability to propel our creations into a cyclical lifestyle of rebirth through functionality. Spatial experiences are ... -
Test of Time
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis is a study of how the use of recycled materials can express the passage of time within a society or culture. The building typology for the execution of this idea is a historical museum. The Theoretical ... -
subURBAN : redefining urban residential
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Suburbia is being called home to an increasing number of people living in Western societies. In the United States, more people live in the suburbs than the cities they surround, and 75% of all new construction is taking ... -
Relevant Antiquity : Catalyzing Tourism with Architectural Tradition
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis explores the question of how local architectural traditions affect tourism. The typology for the exploration of this problem is a convention center/hotel in a building complex comprised of adaptive re-use and ... -
Community School
(2011)This thesis is intended to transfer urban theory to a rural place in such a way that it respects rural systems, and the result will be a hybrid solution. A design process will be set up to investigate the possibilities of ... -
Contrasting History
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This graduate thesis examines the inherent meaning in a constructed building and using that to find a new purpose for that building that embraces its style, age, and purpose. Through this connection with history, the ... -
Feeding Change from the Ground Up
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This project aims to answer the question, through the utilization of the appropriate learning environment, can children learn how to improve the nutritional health of themselves and their families? The solution will be ... -
Revitalizing Urban Corridors: Synergy Park
(2011)The premise of this project is to investigate the current relationship of downtown Minneapolis to the surrounding urban sprawl. From the expansion of the freeway and its connection to these areas, the city is a hub for ...