Browsing Architecture Theses by Title
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Designing for a New Way of Living
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This graduate thesis explores the ideas and exploration of creating architecture as an educational instrument that will inform its occupants about a new, more environmentally-friendly way of living. The design itself becomes ... -
Designing for Aging
(North Dakota State University, 2010)The built environment must adapt to the increasing number of aged people by maintaining and improving the accessibility of the built environment. Due to improvements in medicine, as well as the aging of the baby boomer ... -
Designing for Chaos: Turning Digital Complexity into a Quantum Science Learning Center
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis will explore the ability of a designer to use the arbitrary relationships generated in complex systems to determine the design of a building. Traditionally, the form of a building is created through a very ... -
Designing for Connection to Alleviate Urban Stress
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Today, it is estimated that over half of the world’s population are living in urban areas. With the ever-rising totals of the human population locating to the urban environment, the effects that the built environment ... -
Designing for Humanity
(North Dakota State University, 2018)This thesis aims to explore the idea that a healthy prison design will in turn create a healthy atmosphere. I will work to design a prison that will aid in the inmates’ transition back into society. By designing a structure ... -
Designing for Memory Loss
(North Dakota State University, 2021)We all live with the fact that someday our loved ones will need to have help with day to day life and that we will too. As of right now there is a generally negative feeling towards moving out of one’s home and into an ... -
Designing for Outsiders: Building a Sustainble Future for Keaau
(North Dakota State University, 2020)How tolerant are we of people outside our community? Our ingrained instincts drive us as humans to seek positive interactions, to feel accepted and appreciated, to find purpose to help us thrive as individuals and as a ... -
Designing for the Decades
(North Dakota State University, 2017)This thesis explores how the physical environment, through spaces and their connections, can positively impact the overall wellness and productivity of senior citizens. This thesis aims to prove the level of engagement ... -
Designing for the Montessori Method of Education
(North Dakota State University, 2021)How can architecture improve the health and well-being of students in the learning environment? Can we as designers use the Montessori child-focused approach to learning and apply it to architecture for children’s ... -
Designing for the Senses
(North Dakota State University, 2010)The typology for this project will be a school for the blind. The blind and visually handicapped have the right to be able to navigate effortlessly through the built environment. It is our job as designers to ensure the ... -
Designing Inclusively: Innovative Design Strategies for Inclusive Accessibility in the Built Environment for the Blind and/or Deaf
(North Dakota State University, 2023)Individuality, freedom, and a chosen lifestyle improves with enough space for people to live with confidence and safety. This equitable value is not one which someone who is blind and/or deaf tends to benefit from. These ... -
Designing Through Disaster
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis project is about how we can provide a cost and time effective source of emergency housing for those just affected by a natural disaster. Natural disasters rarely have a warning signal to them, and even when ... -
Destined: The Evolution of airports through futuristic adaptation.
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Throughout time, humans have considered ourselves nomads, moving from place to place. We seek new horizons of perception, confined only by the bonds of gravity holding us to the face of the earth. Recently, we have stretched ... -
Developing a Dialectic
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This project, titled Developing a Dialectic, began as an analysis of the tangible evidence of time within a built environment, specifically the changing paths on which we experience our cities and the objects and spaces ... -
Developing Architectural Methods through Local Built Heritage: a Performing Arts Center in Torres, Brasil.
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Southern Brazilian vernacular building methods contain knowledge that is unique to that particular area of the world. With the implementation of modern techniques and the usage of intuitive design processes, a designer can ... -
Development of the Youth
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis presents research on the benefits well designed youth centers can have on children as they grow into adulthood. The typology of this project is a center for the study of children maturation. The site is in ... -
Die Spaltung und Zerschmetterung: Preserving Traces of History
(North Dakota State University, 2018)How can a structure of war be transformed into a new architectural experience without detracting from the historic significance of the building? And how is this historic significance embedded in the architecture? This ... -
Digital Library of Duluth
(North Dakota State University, 2011)The underlying concept for this thesis is the beginning of discussion overtly looking at how computing technology is used by architects today. The discussion will center around critical analysis of uses of software in ... -
Digital Media Lab
(North Dakota State University, 2006)The project typology for this design thesis will be a research and technology park in conjunction with the University of Minnesota and the design profession as a bridging facility for the advancement of digital techniques ... -
Digital Oasis
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis approaches the issue “As technology further develops our abilities to communicate across distance, what role will public space play, if any, in the future shaping of our cities?” The Theoretical Premise/ Unifying ...