Design, Architecture & Art, School of: Recent submissions
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Sustainable Growth and Redevelopment of Wadena: Evoking a Meaningful Change
(2011)The general public often delude themselves into thinking that the landscapes we design are implicitly sustainable, though they frequently are not. We, as designers, must make known, and take responsibility for, the ... -
Urban Paths
(North Dakota State University, 2011)The typology for this thesis project will be a hybrid transit center. Public awareness on the effects that vehicles and buildings have on the environment is a large component to this project. This will be done through a ... -
Identifying and Cultivating a Legacy and Urban Connection
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis is a response to the exploration of the legacy of our civic communities. It will explore the manner in which these communities are developed, cultivated, and grow to meet the needs of those individuals of which ... -
Community Resilience: Investing in Walkability
(2011)Currently, Main Avenue is lacking character and connection to the rest of Fargo, North Dakota. Most of Main Avenue is zoned commercial, and it appears to be highly industrialized because of full scale billboards, concrete ... -
Hope : An Environment for Revitalization
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis project focuses on the need for a more holistic approach in today’s health care system, one that puts a greater emphasis on the psychological healing of a person; a facet that is too often neglected. Specifically, ... -
Educative Junction
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Educative Junction: A new model for public high school education. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. To inspire a greater value of mandatory public education in the eyes of students, a school built to accommodate that education ... -
Energy of Water : An Empirical Study into the Human Connection to Water
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This book is an exploration into how our thoughts and emotions can change our built environment. It will focus on water as the bridge connecting our experiences with our physical environment. By focusing on our earth’s ... -
Sustainable Lakeshore Development : Integrating Lakeshore Ecosystems into the Urban Environment
(2011)This project is meant to explore sustainable lakeshore design ideas within private and public community property that share a common water body resource. A community surrounding a water body forms a social-ecological ... -
Digital Library of Duluth
(North Dakota State University, 2011)The underlying concept for this thesis is the beginning of discussion overtly looking at how computing technology is used by architects today. The discussion will center around critical analysis of uses of software in ... -
Rethinking Shangri-La : Revival of the sustainable courtyard dwellings
(North Dakota State University, 2011)While technology and globalization continue to prevail in every aspect of the world, the scope for the sustenance of regional culture is rapidly disappearing. Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal, hasn’t been left behind ... -
Urban Greenway Retrofit: a design for alternative transportation, community and the environment
(2011)This thesis will examine how greenway systems connect and strengthen neighborhoods and green spaces within a city. A connected greenway system links green spaces within a city to enhance the relationships and well-being ... -
[re]DUX : adaptive architecture, [re]use & mixed use
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis examines the implications a building’s history/past has on its future development. It is guided by the idea that some structures are more capable than others in making the transition from one function ... -
Without Borders - Unifying Modern Patchwork Cities
(2011)Title: Without Borders: Unifying Modern Patchwork Cities Summary: This thesis examines the question, how can American cities be designed or modifi ed to create a more unifi ed city, making it available to anyone who ... -
ACTUATED ARCHITECTURE : Driving Healthy Behavior With Design
(North Dakota State University, 2011)The mere sight of architecture can create a behavioral response, so through research, this thesis seeks to develop a better understanding of architecture’s impact on health and wellness. Architecture can create sensory ... -
Boom Abodes : Designing for the Transition
(North Dakota State University, 2011)With recent technological advances in oil extraction, communities across the Midwest are being hit by an oil boom. With a rapid growth of migrant workers flooding in to rural counties, economic strain and housing shortages ... -
chain reaction
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This chain reaction thesis will be created by the necessity of human interaction. It is both an examination of human connection as well as spatial configurations. This will show how human connections are crucial to growth ... -
Biodynamic Farming : Between the Plate and the Planet
(North Dakota State University, 2011)There are a number of reasons why food in the United States may be subjected to health, social, and environmental concerns. This thesis book examines regenerative agriculture and how the built environment may help to reverse ... -
Expanding Experiential Perception
(North Dakota State University, 2011)By understanding the affects of built space on those who have limited physical or mental abilities, we are able to create space that could facilitate their very specific needs. Currently, there are many ways to facilitate ... -
Pedagogical Composition : an exploration of global passive practices
(North Dakota State University, 2011)The Industrial Revolution has played a dramatic role in shaping the behavior and the mindset of the American people. Innovations like electricity generation, iron production, and sheet glass production have forever ... -
Floating : National Oceanic Living Atelier
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis projects itself into the future to answer the questions of what will happen if the current climate changes continue and we are faced with the rising of the sea. The rising sea levels will reclaim a portion of ...