Browsing Architecture Theses by Title

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    • ReArrange: Making Space Transform 

      Makis, Amanda (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      This thesis explores the question of how kinetic architecture can promote learning in the general public. The typology that is being examined is a kinetic laboratory. The Theoretical Premise /Unifying Idea guiding research ...

    • Reawakening Cultural Significance: Ruin Exploration in its Full Embodiment 

      Majchrzak, David (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      This thesis aims to evoke a “historical consciousness” through the embodied experience of architecture. Specifically speaking, this architecture will reawaken the history of the Native American culture through creative ...

    • Rebuilding the Human Experience 

      Hart, Mindy (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      This thesis will create a natural food co-op in a town devastated by natural disaster. The design of this building will utilize a site with an existing structural failure in Greensburg, Kansas, left behind after the ...

    • Reconnect the aging: residential assisted living for the elders in a Great Plains small town 

      Farmer, Kimberly (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis project, Reconnect the Aging: Residential Assisted Living for the Elders in a Great Plains Small Town, addresses forgotten and unnoticed elderly in society and how they can be reconnected to the surrounding ...

    • The Reconnection of Nature and Health 

      Spaude, Kirsten (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      Healthcare is an ever-changing field and often a field of uncertainty of what will be around the next corner. As of recent we have faced new challenges such as the Covid-19 pandemic where the medical field had to shift ...

    • Recovering Life in Architecture 

      Patnode, David (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis, Recover(ing)life within architecture, will focus on the question, “How can the design of a rehabilitation center assist in the care that each patient experiences and requires individually in the recovery ...

    • The Recovery of St. James: The Journey to Wholeness for the Broken and Addicted 

      Harms, Diedrich (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      In the City of Butte, Montana, a rough and economically depressed area, the first hospital of the region now sits in ruin. The Old St. James Hospital will be taken from its current damaged state and transformed into a ...

    • Recovery through design 

      Prins, Polly (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      The aim of this thesis is to investigate and identify the environmental psychological needs of patients receiving treatment for addiction and mental health diseases. The research aims to implement architectural spacial ...

    • Recycling the Oil Boom 

      Frick, Benjamin (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      This thesis provides some answers to the question, how can a small community sustainably adapt to a localized oil boom? The typology for this examination to the problem is a recycling center. The theoretical premise/unifying ...

    • redefine: urban living 

      Taplin, Brittany (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      The focus of this thesis, [redefine] is how a building's function can be redefined to suit the changing needs of the community through adaptive reuse. Over time buildings cease to function the way they were originally ...

    • Redefining the Cybernetic Being: Reconstructing the Theatrical Origins of the Contemporary Metropolis 

      Goodman, Samuel (North Dakota State University, 2021)
      We live in the information age. This means that our collective existence lies within a global society supported by an economy that is almost entirely structured by information technology, the study or use of systems for ...

    • The Redesign of Lakeshore Architecture: A Mixed Use Approach to a Single Use Idea 

      Fjelstad, Chase (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      Boathouses are currently banned in Minnesota do to their effect on our lakeshores, but this may not be the right solution to the issues they face. Just because something is outlawed does not mean that it is entirely bad, ...

    • Redesigning the Passenger Experience Within the Context of Commercial Aviation: Door to Door 

      Musel, Mitchell (North Dakota State University, 2020)
      When addressing the topic of travel, a series of mixed emotions can rise up within us. Stemming from our experience from previous trips, we may choose to see the entire trip as a positive or negative based upon a single ...

    • Refractive Architecture: A Paradigm Shift through Education 

      Plasencia, Matthew (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      A place of no place, void of connection or meaning. We are moving ever more rapidly into a utopian society. A society of automatons, operating as machines. Aspects of our world today have been reduced and categorized to a ...

    • Regenerating Space for Community Enhancement 

      Kreil, Emily (North Dakota State University, 2022)
      Urban development and master planning of a large site that lies within a growing city can unify and influence expansion in a community, if done so in a strategic and deliberate way. My thesis project will analyze the ...

    • The Regeneration of Lake George: A New Library for St. Cloud 

      Hines, Brianna C. (North Dakota State University, 2005)
      Outdoor activities play an important role in everyone’s lives. As a child, I was able to count on an assortment of activities provided at St. Cloud’s Lake George Park Recreation Area. Within the past decade, this area ...

    • Regeneration Through Connection 

      Hoff, Danielle (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      Citing the world’s current rate of natural resource use, there will be little left of the world that is natural within a generation. The current cycle of environmental degradation is so extreme that the natural environment ...

    • Regenerative Architecture: Making Nature an Equal Partner in Design 

      Jewison, Zachary (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      The current example in the field of architecture today is one of degeneration and obsolete building technologies. Regenerative architecture is the practice of engaging the natural world as the medium for, and producer of ...

    • Reintegration Through Architecture: Using Architectural Elements to Support the Process of Reintegration for Survivors of Human Trafficking 

      Omberg, Paige (North Dakota State University, 2020)
      The project typology is transitional social housing for victims of human trafficking. Can a designer focus on location and connection to nature to best support and acknowledge the challenges faced in the process of ...

    • Reinventing the American Dream: Saving the Suburbs 

      Galloway, Michael (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis examines the future of suburban environments and tactics for creating a more feasible suburban community through modifications of the existing elements of the site. The suburban environment may be revitalized ...