Browsing Architecture Theses by Title

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    • V_Midterm Boards 

      Mork, Jarrett (North Dakota State University, 2016)

    • V_Presentation 

      Mork, Jarrett (North Dakota State University, 2016)

    • Vacant Mainstreet 

      Booth, David (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis, Vacant Main Street, will focus on a building’s ability to affect its surrounding community. Can a building be the spark that revitalizes a dying Main Street? The Main Street of St. Croix Falls, WI is ...

    • Vanlife: Creating Community on the Road 

      DiGiorno, John (North Dakota State University, 2020)
      Van life is an ever-growing movement across North America and the rest of the world. Driven by high costs of living, mundane desk jobs, poor quality of life, and the urge to be free, thousands of people are packing up ...

    • Virtual Space in a Physical World 

      Krugerud, Devin (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      A small exposition center for St. Paul, MN. This project explores various design strategies with glass, steel, and suspension. Through the study of video game design techniques architecture can be developed in an entirely ...

    • Virtual World of Information 

      Sirota, Louis (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 ...

    • Viscera(l): Catharsis and the Treatment of Chronic Illness 

      Berens, Gretta (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      Chronic disease represents the most extreme case of illness simply because it cannot be taken away. Irritable Bowel Disease (IBD) has remained primarily invisible from society, forcing its 5 million patients to fluctuate ...

    • Vision to Completion 

      Meyer, Sean (North Dakota State University, 2021)
      How can architects and designers build a healthier relationship with construction workers? To answer this question I will design a mixed use condominium prototype. My design will focus on creating a respectful and ...

    • Vista Rehabilitation 

      Smith, Matthew (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Vista Rehabilitation is a thesis project that explores the possibilities and affects that design, and its relation to nature, has on healing and the overall health of the inhabitants of a structure. In times of sickness ...

    • Vth Floor display boards 

      Mork, Jarrett (North Dakota State University, 2016)

    • Waiting for Ruin 

      Conway, Joseph (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This Thesis, Waiting for Ruin, is an examination of how adaptive reuse projects can become an intermediary for overlapping contemporary and historic architecture. Adaptive reuse can be used to revitalize historic but ...

    • Walker Community Library: Through Interaction Comes the Spread of Knowledge 

      Holmgren, Andrew C. (North Dakota State University, 2006)
      This thesis study will explore how the redevelopment of a branch library in a vibrant area of a city can not only strengthen the urban fabric but also breed interaction and facilitate the spread of knowledge though ...

    • Walker Reimagined 

      Reller, McKenna (North Dakota State University, 2022)
      Tourism has the unique opportunity to support and create a thriving community in locations across the world that would otherwise be small and sleepy. But what are the impacts of tourism on the local communities of ...

    • Warrior's Ranch: Combating the Invisible Enemy 

      Hyatt, Brandon (North Dakota State University, 2021)
      Warrior’s Ranch is a domiciliary mental health rehabilitation facility that is designed to help treat veterans who are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychological and physical disorders. The ...

    • Wasted Space: Reimagining and Repurposing Spaces 

      Hermanson, Alixandra (North Dakota State University, 2021)
      Cities throughout the world have developed urban landscapes sprawling with buildings of various uses, green spaces linking neighborhoods and networks of transportation systems. Some areas within these types of cities have ...

    • Water : the spirit of life 

      Briggs, Ward (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      This thesis will investigate the correct balance between water and architecture that creates a serene environment for the public. Water is seen in today's day and age as a raw material that we humans always have at our ...

    • Wayfinding in Virtual Reality: Wayfinding Through the Lens of Virtual Reality in Videogame Design 

      Zachman, Alyssa (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      This thesis, Virtual Architecture: application of architectural design within the realm of video games and virtual realities, examines and challenges how architecture is viewed in a simulated setting by its users as ...

    • Welcome Strangers: Designing a Sense of Belonging 

      Watson, Sarah Lynn (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      As people from cultures around the world come to the United States to resettle they are faced with many difficulties, one of them being the sense of belonging. Starting the process of integration, immigrants are faced with ...

    • Wellness in Educational Facilities 

      Carpenter, Carol (North Dakota State University, 2022)
      Universally children are sent to attend school to gain basic knowledge in most communities. In the United States the standard is about 7 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 13 years. These educational institutions that ...

    • Wellness Through Adaptive Reuse 

      Kramer, Jared (North Dakota State University, 2020)
      The International Existing Building Code (IEBC) was first created alongside the International Building Code (IBC) in 1997 to address health and safety concerns in the built environment based upon prescriptive and ...