Browsing Architecture Theses by Title
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Breaking The Mold: Exploring the Recreation of Fitness Design in a Natural Setting
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Since the beginning of time, mankind has maintained a profound connection with their physical fitness and the World around them. However, modern day practices are distrupting these formerly innate behaviors. The lethargic ... -
Brewing Up a Community
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis begins to answer the question: through design how can different zoning types, such as commercial and industrial, be built to create a hybrid structure that would complement each zoning type? The Typology used ... -
Bridge: A Library as Interconnection for Culture and Function
(North Dakota State University, 2018)My thesis is focused on creating an opportunity for the exchange and connection between individuals, cultures, communities, and knowledge we gain from one another. Located in the Fargo-Moorhead area, the two cities have a ... -
Bridging program and place
(North Dakota State University, 2015)A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students, yet so often our school buildings do little to suggest that any learning occurs inside. Our schools should be designed in a way that enhances the learning ... -
Bridging the gap - sustainability through technê
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis explores the relationship between experiential and scientific approaches to sustainability and the architectural approaches to the hot-button issue. It will provide an example of how an environment can encourage ... -
Bridging the Gap: Adaptive Reuse of an Intergenerational Learning Center
(North Dakota State University, 2016)This design thesis adaptively reuses the former St. Louis County Jail to house an independent living facility and a preschool that incorporates an Intergenerational Learning Center, located in the Downtown Waterfront ... -
Bringing the Rave out of the Cave
(North Dakota State University, 2020)By examing the types of space raves inhabited, from the anarchist grass-root orgins of the urban undergrounds to the vast landscapes of commodified festivals of today, I question: what would the ideal 21st century rave ... -
Broken Connections: Creating a Partnership of Mankind, Nature and Place Through Transportation
(North Dakota State University, 2016)This thesis examines how the revitalization of the passenger rail in America can repair an urban city’s connection with its natural surroundings, its history and its greater regional context. St. Paul, Minnesota ... -
Building as Bridge: Re-imagining Sustainable Living Through Symphonic Design
(North Dakota State University, 2016)For German Philosopher, Martin Heidegger, a bridge is a manifestation of the fourfold—Earth, Sky, Divinities, and Mortals—which is at the root of all dwelling. He believed that preserving this fourfold is how we dwell in ... -
Building Blocks: Re-framing Urban Inestment and Community Health Through Equitable Empowerment
(North Dakota State University, 2021)The modern city is failing at embracing the value of difference and common ground is fading. The implicit effects of urban policy are dividing cities and putting their most marginalized communities in an even more ... -
Building Community: A Mixed Use Urban Redevelopment Project With an Emphasis on Community Sustainability, St. Paul, Minnesota
(North Dakota State University, 2005)This thesis will be a study of mixed use facilities in an urban area in an effort to find a design that is not only aesthetically pleasing, but encourages community growth and development. Research will look into reasons ... -
Building Connections Through Design
(North Dakota State University, 2023)The typology of this thesis will be a modern art / design museum with a civic and education emphasis. The design will feature galleries, classrooms and workshops, hospitality spaces, and include flexible design strategies ... -
Building IN: The BNSF Corridor Initiative
(North Dakota State University, 2006)This project is an urban design study in the re-use of abandoned railway land as a potential for urban growth and development in the historic Fargo Downtown neighborhood. This project will examine the characteristic of ... -
Building Senses: A Fresh Look At A Meaningful Retirement Community For The People Of Zhengzhou, China
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis will rethink elderly people’s needs and according to that, design a building that responds to the physical and psychological aspects of the elderly population in the urban setting. The typology of this building ... -
Building the Nest: Designing for Veteran Healing
(North Dakota State University, 2019)The Eagle's Healing Nest, located in Sauk Centre, MN, serves as a refuge for veterans and active duty members where they receive the support and assistance they need. Coming from all over the country, veterans migrate to ... -
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, ... -
Built on the Rock
(North Dakota State University, 2021)American church buildings age, deteriorate, and vanish, their congregants dwindling and lacking the financial resources to build or maintain them. Simultaneously, a global pandemic sheds light on shortcomings in ... -
Built Politics
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Since our built environment is not immune to the globalization of knowledge and culture what do we do as a society to keep its identity? Symbolism of a certin identity must seek out and inform the architecture of our civic ... -
Bully Free
(North Dakota State University, 2017)A school is not just an educational institution; it’s a place where students build their identity. While attending school, students grow in many ways. Throughout the school experience, students will grow emotionally, ... -
Bully Pulpit Club House & Retreat
(North Dakota State University, 2005)Historic Medora is a unique mix of spectacular scenery, wildlife, outdoor adventure, entertainment, dining and shopping nestled in the beautiful North Dakota badlands. Located just 3 miles south of Historic Medora lies ...