Browsing Architecture Theses by Title
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Catalyzing Tourism: Through Integration of Cultural Heritage
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis investigates the question, “How can architecture reflect a region’s cultural heritage and work as a catalyst for tourism?” The typology for the examination of this problem is a resort style hotel. The idea ... -
The Cathedral of Consciousness: The Liminal Dimension of Dreams and Meditative Thinking
(North Dakota State University, 2021)This thesis explores how architecture can redefine the human relationship to consciousness and how we experience consciousness itself. Specifically, this project will address different ways to bring participants face ... -
Celebrating the Past While Creating the Present & Imagining the Future Through the Hamline Midway Library
(North Dakota State University, 2023)Architecture is more than four walls and a roof. It becomes a beacon of a community. As a country the United States is relatively young, hence the architecture is not as historic as other countries. As a whole, there ... -
Centennial High: A School for Hope and Growth
(North Dakota State University, 2021)In this paper, high school design is evaluated in order to better support the mental health of its occupants. The alarming rise in anxiety, depression, and violence among youth over the past few decades demonstrates the ... -
Center for Children With Special Needs: Investigating Architectural Design Through a Child's Perception of Place
(North Dakota State University, 2005)Embodying energy, emotion and youthfulness, children are a delicate and sensitive part of our communities. Unfortunately because of their size and growing immune systems, when faced with illness children tend to need ... -
The Center for Collective Knowledge: The Rebirth of the Fargo Public Library and the Continued Revitalization of Downtown
(North Dakota State University, 2006)This thesis project will explore a public library for the future. The thesis questions will explore the following: what is knowledge, how is it perceived, and what function will the public library take as knowledge becomes ... -
The Center for Equality: an LGBT and Community Resource
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Architecture can facilitate the creation of a comfortable, welcoming and uniting space for its users. This thesis seeks a solution to the need for LGBT-affirming spaces. These spaces are necessary for a minority community ... -
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 ... -
The Chameleon
(North Dakota State University, 2021)These days the growth of society is accelerating and there are many new technical and cultural problems to be considered. Buildings must therefore be in a position to respond to these rapidly evolving new environments. ... -
Changing and Adapting
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Sustainable architecture is growing in popularity and necessity all around the world. More and more people and governments are recognizing the need for sustainability to improve the health of the planet and the people that ... -
Chernobyl: Beyond Disaster
(North Dakota State University, 2023)In 1986, the Chernobyl disaster shook the world, leaving a scar on the land and a wound in the hearts of those who lived through it. In response, an architectural thesis project has been proposed - a memorial development ... -
Children of the Neon Mirage: Proximity, Duration and Homunculi Space
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis seeks to investigate the relationship of the philosophical ideas of proximity and duration as they relate to architectural expression and representation. In design, linguistic and visual expression and their ... -
Chronically Sustainable: Creating a Sustainable Community for the Chronically Ill
(North Dakota State University, 2022)In a world that is rapidly changing due to climate change, there is a group of people that are being left behind in the “green” movement. This is not new for these people; the group has often been forgotten and under ... -
Church of the New and the Old
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Churches undoubtedly serve as an inspiration for many architects. Their emotional and physical presence to move people is undeniable. However, we can see a shift in their design and meaning through time. As the world ... -
Cincinnati Union Underground
(North Dakota State University, 2015)How can a transportation hub go beyond just serving the communities transportation needs of a city and create a center of activity. This project looks to explore the transportation hub and how it can become more than just ... -
Cinematic perception : exploring relationships between film and architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The basis of this thesis project stems from exploring relationships between film and architecture by examining the question: “Can the cinematic experience be enhanced by a socially focused and interactive built environment?” ... -
The Circle of Life: The Role of Architecture in the Embodiment of Grief
(North Dakota State University, 2022)If it is true that we understand ourselves through the other, is it possible that a piece of ourselves is therefore within the other? How has distancing ourselves from the death of others impacted the understanding of the ... -
City of Kids - design kindergarten
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis project, City of Kids, examines the question that how can architectural elements optimize the traditional method of early childhood development. This thesis proposal primarily focuses on the impacts of spatial ... -
City Provident
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis models a system of movement. Any space containing obstacles and needing to be traversed offers resistance to whom or whatever may be trying to navigate it. This resistance transfers directly to inefficiencies ... -
Cleaning by Greening: Adaptive Reuse of America's Open-Pit Mines
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Surface mines are a common sight in mineral-rich areas. One such area is the Mesabi Iron Range in northern Minnesota. These mines will eventually become abandoned, as many in the eastern United States, as well as many along ...