Design, Architecture & Art, School of: Recent submissions
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Beauty of Becoming : Architecture as a Teleology
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis is an attempt to clearly and simply recourse the history and the activity of architecture to the fundamental "natural order" with which one comprehends the world, and which forms the individual's enduring ... -
Productive Reintegration
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This project will re-address the traditional function of the ‘halfway house’ and focus on how this transitional period can benefit both local communities and felons during their pre-release stage of reintegration. The ... -
Communities - Progress Through Gathering
(North Dakota State University, 2011)The ideas of how architecture can help rural communities stay viable in the twenty-first century will be explored through the development and design of a multi-use community center. Located in Grantsburg, a small rural ... -
Delight in Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This project explores delight in buildings and how we experience them. It states that the personality of a building as exhibited in individual traits is what we find delight in, as humans tend to personify things they ... -
Biophilia : A Healing Connection
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Throughout recent years more people have been inhabiting cites which creates growth of the built environment and a greater disconnect between humans and nature. It becomes a matter of finding solutions to settle this ... -
Educational Interaction within Nature
(North Dakota State University, 2011)I have challenged myself to find if the quality of a space can enhance some ones ability to learn. The typology is a junior high school in the Midwest. This location will not only challenge me because of the various types ... -
Ensemble : The Art of Inspiration
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis will speak to the integration of the performing arts and visual arts and architecture. Architecture should inevitably be integral with the contents within. Consequently the content within the structure ... -
TOWARD INTEGRATION : Collaborative Architecture and Design Methods
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis investigates the current delivery methods architects use to create buildings in relation to the access to and quality of them. It pays special attention to investigating new delivery methods, which enable a ... -
Sensitive Significance
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis studies the question of how the quality of the built environment affects all aspects of well-being in its users. The topic will be explored through mixed method research with an emphasis on the relationships ... -
Ritual : Enhancing the Modern Athlete
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This project illustrates how ritual influences the construction, function, and experience of architecture. Ritual is essential in our everyday life and it is vital to that architecture contributes to ritual. This project ... -
Live Active : An Architectural Response to Rehabilitation
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis researches and examines the way we respond to our environment, both natural and built. According to Newtonian physics, for every action there is an equal or opposite reaction. Default stairs, walls, windows, ... -
Ecological Resilient Landscapes: Averting a Pending Disaster
(2011)Scars can be inflicted on landscapes after decades of human intervention. This project is meant to embrace the effects of remedial ecological design on our fragmented landscapes. Limited human intervention is an essential ... -
Ephemeral Population : Housing for a Transient Workforce
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Western North Dakota is currently experiencing a tremendous oil boom which is attracting people from all over the country because of the prospects of money, work, and a better way of life. Communities are desperately trying ... -
Kinetic Response
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis examines how a shelter could serve as a vehicle for renewal and investigates the relationship of poverty and progress. The shelter could foster short-term relief as an aid for long-term recovery following natural ... -
Reusing Structure
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis attempts to understand how built structures can evolve over time through use and reuse. It looks at how reusing a space is possible by taking a warehouse structure and reusing it for the new purpose of living ... -
Rebuilding the Human Experience
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis will create a natural food co-op in a town devastated by natural disaster. The design of this building will utilize a site with an existing structural failure in Greensburg, Kansas, left behind after the ... -
Ecological Architecture : Reconnecting Environments
(North Dakota State University, 2011)The typology for this facility derived from the problem concerning the separation of environments. The design will incorporate an Ecological Education and Research Center for Sustainable Development (EERCSD) within the ... -
Virtual World of Information
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Currently, there is a disconnect between the digitization of the world and modern building design. This project attempts to answer the question, “how does ever-changing technology, and the culture that follows it influence ... -
Preventative Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis examines and researches a preventative approach toward the present mental healthcare practice. The current mental healthcare system focuses on a curative instead of a preventative approach. This current treatment ... -
Recycling the Oil Boom
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis provides some answers to the question, how can a small community sustainably adapt to a localized oil boom? The typology for this examination to the problem is a recycling center. The theoretical premise/unifying ...