Browsing Architecture Theses by Title
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Quality for Equality
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Growing up playing softball it was always a goal to reach a big stage for example the state tournament where even outside of games there were a lot of experiences to be excited about. For young softball players one of ... -
QUARRY INQUIRIES : resistance in material, method and measure
(North Dakota State University, 2015)How does the methodology for constructing site information influence architectural design? This thesis is an investigative proposal for an Environmental and Cultural Interpretation Center for Quarry Park and Nature Reserve. ... -
Racing Towards a Sustainable Future
(North Dakota State University, 2023)The premier series for dirt track racing (World of Outlaws) has 174 races in 31 states across the country each year. With each race comes different fans, drivers, and crew members to these individual communities. While ... -
Radiant Future: Dwelling, Pruitt Igoe, and the Imprint of Communist Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2017)This project seeks to solve the issue of public housing that America is facing in the present day. This housing sector is in crisis, and needs a renewed emphasis on quality and regard for human dignity, as well as an ... -
Rape and Abuse Crisis Center, Grand Forks, North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2005)For some women and children, life is lived in constant fear of abuse. The reality is that many of them are unable to leave their unfortunate situations because they are dependent on the abuser in many ways, including ... -
Re-imagining RFK: Using DC's Captive Audience as a Revenue-Driven Incentive for a Privately-Funded Stadium
(North Dakota State University, 2019)NFL stadiums are expensive, consume tremendous amounts of land and materials, and oftentimes require a significant amount of taxpayer funding. Additionally, outside of the ten to twelve football games held per year, ... -
Re-Imagining Soccer Stadium Design
(North Dakota State University, 2023)We know of the existence of many stadiums around the world, but as technology and culture change, so must we change the way we design sporting venues. At one point, we saw the Roman Coliseum as a standard for designing ... -
Re-Imagining the Nuclear Power Industry Through Innovation, Architecture, and Education for a More Sustainable Dynamic Between the Built and Natural Environment
(North Dakota State University, 2023)The natural world is being destroyed and needs to be protected. To do that we need low polluting and efficient forms of energy production. The fossil fuel industry is one of the main sources of harmful pollutants that ... -
Re-Imagining the RMS Titanic Through the Use of Architectural Fragmentation
(North Dakota State University, 2023)Architecture often presents itself as a gateway to how we understand the past, whether through monuments, museums, or installations. There are many instances where architecture impacts how we perceive major historic ... -
[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 ... -
rEACH Central Ground Pet Healthcare Facility
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Animals have been beside humans for centuries, throughout the time we have tried to understand and domesticate all sorts of animals. There are many benefits to having pets in our lives, including a happier and healthier ... -
READesign
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis, READesign: Architecture that promotes knowledge, will focus on an investigation of the question, how can architecture enhance education and learning. The typology for this examination will be a mixture between ... -
Realliance: A Scrap Metal Recycling Facility
(North Dakota State University, 2005)With the growing concern for our environment, recycling has become an issue for everyone, from recycling aluminum cans to reusing building materials. Scrap metal facilities have become more prevalent in recent years and ... -
Realms of Reality Elementary School: Empowering Young Learners: Integrating AR/VR Technology in Elementary Schools
(North Dakota State University, 2023)An analytical re-imagining of the K-12 educational model in tandem with AR and VR technologies through architecture has the ability to redefine the success of the next generation of minds. Technology is constantly evolving ... -
ReArrange: Making Space Transform
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This thesis explores the question of how kinetic architecture can promote learning in the general public. The typology that is being examined is a kinetic laboratory. The Theoretical Premise /Unifying Idea guiding research ... -
Reawakening Cultural Significance: Ruin Exploration in its Full Embodiment
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis aims to evoke a “historical consciousness” through the embodied experience of architecture. Specifically speaking, this architecture will reawaken the history of the Native American culture through creative ... -
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 ... -
Reconnect the aging: residential assisted living for the elders in a Great Plains small town
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis project, Reconnect the Aging: Residential Assisted Living for the Elders in a Great Plains Small Town, addresses forgotten and unnoticed elderly in society and how they can be reconnected to the surrounding ... -
The Reconnection of Nature and Health
(North Dakota State University, 2023)Healthcare is an ever-changing field and often a field of uncertainty of what will be around the next corner. As of recent we have faced new challenges such as the Covid-19 pandemic where the medical field had to shift ... -
Recovering Life in Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis, Recover(ing)life within architecture, will focus on the question, “How can the design of a rehabilitation center assist in the care that each patient experiences and requires individually in the recovery ...