Browsing Architecture Theses by Title
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Dreaming and Perceiving: An Approach to Dwelling in the City
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis aims to answer the question; how can we slow down our perception of city living to create an appropriate setting that reinterprets aspects of community living into an urban setting? The typology is a mixed use ... -
DuSable Tricademy for Artistic Expression: An Application of Kinetic Architectural Design for a Performing Arts Community
(North Dakota State University, 2006)The building typology for the thesis will be a campus for education in the performing arts. The site is located at the mouth of the Chicago River in Chicago, Illinois. The thesis will examine kinetic architecture as ... -
Dwelling in Nomadic Architecture: Transitional Housing for the Suddenly and Chronically Homeless
(North Dakota State University, 2016)The goal of this thesis project is to create a welcoming and respectful space to house, educate, and rehabilitate the chronic homeless population in the Minneapolis area. The challenge of this premise is to provide ... -
Dwelling up|on the Dock
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis project will explore the aspects of dwellings that can contribute to making the floor plan more efficient through flexibility and adaptation to the users and environment. -
Dynamic Modularity: A New Approach to Off-site Construction
(North Dakota State University, 2020)The goal of this thesis project is to examine the several possible ways that a single-family residence can be built using various forms of off-site construction in order to determine which methods are the most suitable. ... -
̶d̶̶i̶̶s̶ Abled: A Salutogenic Approach to Design for the Enhancement of the ADA Design Standards in the Built Environment for the Positive Impact on Mental Health of its Inhabitants
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Physical and mental health encompass the overall well-being of a person. However, people seem to immediately observe the physical health of others in society while the concept of “mental health” is left unspoken. The very ... -
Echo: Elemental Architecture as a Method of Cleansing Freshwater in the Wake of Industrialization
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Existing as a force powerful enough to shape the face of the earth, yet delicate enough to sustain the life within our bodies, water is an element with which humans have continuously sought balance. Water has eternally ... -
Ecological Architecture : Reconnecting Environments
(North Dakota State University, 2011)The typology for this facility derived from the problem concerning the separation of environments. The design will incorporate an Ecological Education and Research Center for Sustainable Development (EERCSD) within the ... -
Ecological Living
(North Dakota State University, 2010)The natural world has set the precedent for life and the cycles in which living beings come and go. Many of our challenges in daily life are the struggles between time, money, and our personal health. With that, a look ... -
Ecolux Communities
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Seven years, 103 days, 40 minutes and 17 seconds... On September 17, 2020, Artists Gan Golan and Andrew Boyd displayed a clock in Manhattan Square. This clock, however, displayed exactly how long we have until an ... -
Economically Remodeled Warehouse: The Use of Passive and Sustainable Systems to Repurpose an Abandoned Car Manufacturing Plant
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Sustainable and passive design can be used to remodel an industrial site, while preserving historical context and creating a productive mixed-use space. This thesis project will take an existing abandoned automobile ... -
Edgar Allan Poe Rare Books Library at Yale University: The Rematerialization of Language
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Michel de Certeau states, “The current industrial mass production of visual imagery tends to alienate vision from emotional involvement and identification and turns imagery into a mesmerizing flow without focus or ... -
The Edge as In-Between: Ruin and Rebirth at San Francisco's Sutro Baths
(North Dakota State University, 2016)The ruins of Sutro Baths in San Francisco exist at the edge of coast and sea, at the edge of past and present, and at the edge of construction and deconstruction. Edges have historically been associated with the physical ... -
Edges of the Mind: Reconstructing an Urban Pontos
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Edge-world. The horizon of our lived reality, this material world within which we all exist, is one composed of edges and defined by them, an edge-world. To consider the nature of a town, of a city, of any conceivable ... -
Education Instilling a Brighter Future: Design of Green Strategies Beyond Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2010)The Project Typology is a 25,000 Sq. Ft. Educational Activity Center providing additional before & after school resources as well as new educational programming throughout the day for elementary age children in the Fargo ... -
Educational Interaction within Nature
(North Dakota State University, 2011)I have challenged myself to find if the quality of a space can enhance some ones ability to learn. The typology is a junior high school in the Midwest. This location will not only challenge me because of the various types ... -
Educative Junction
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Educative Junction: A new model for public high school education. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. To inspire a greater value of mandatory public education in the eyes of students, a school built to accommodate that education ... -
The Efficacy of Modular Design in Healthcare
(North Dakota State University, 2023)Modular design has become an industry leading philosophy for the future of community-based health services. Modular construction applied as a design principle subdivides a construction system into independently fabricated ... -
Eightfold architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis investigates the question of how Eightfold Architecture can help inspire us to save existing abandoned buildings, and with this bring an enlightened functionality to transitional areas of our cities. The concept ... -
Electrodynamic Suspension: The Future of Rail Travel in the United States
(North Dakota State University, 2022)With the steady increase in population throughout the United States, the issue of transportation is becoming more of a problem. With how prevalent personal car ownership is American culture, the number of vehicles on ...