Browsing Architecture Theses by Title
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The Space Between: A Manifesto for Designing Socially Engaged Communities
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Suburbanization, low-density residential, commercial and civic zones with expansive, under-utilized parking lots have created physical and social distances between people. Each typological zone is segregated from the others ... -
Space Sky Earth: Weather Learning Museum and Research Center
(North Dakota State University, 2021)A rainstorm now and again can be a calming experience. With our climate changing and a focus on more sustainable built projects, we can only wonder if it is enough to help offset the carbon footprint that architects ... -
Square One Rehabilitation and Wellness: The Effects Architecture Has on Treating TBI
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Traumatic Brain Injury, TBI, is an injury that affects how the brain works. These injuries may impact individuals’ behavior, mobility, memory, language, problem solving and empathy. TBI patients also tend to feel isolated ... -
St. Michael Speedway & Resort
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Raceways are uncommonly thought of as a public amenity and even more uncommonly thought of as a public health solution. Although this may be an incorrect implication. For instance, race tracks could serve as an outlet for ... -
Staging Relationships With History: The Cultural, Natural, and Eternal Ruins of Bears Ears National Monument
(North Dakota State University, 2021)How can we, as designers of the built environment, use history as a means of transforming the future, here and now? Rooted deeply within the canyons and mesas of the 1.3-million-acre monument in southeastern Utah, ... -
Steam Baths
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Today, architecture constitutes the greatest range of the built environment; yet our buildings are causing physiological and mental stress to the public. If architecture is designed intuitively by engaging the public’s ... -
“Steering and salvaging” : an architectural exploration proposal toward automotive recycling and research prototyping
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Automotive design and recycling are essential industries in today’s efforts fighting unsustainability. Yet these industries are too often excluded from one another. I am proposing to design an urban environment automotive ... -
Stillwater Community Center
(North Dakota State University, 2015)How can current needs be addressed to form a space that adds value and connectivity to a community? This is a study of how community driven needs creates a structure that can be used in multiple ways. Using common needs ... -
Stimulating Existing Frameworks
(North Dakota State University, 2021)With existing architectural structures all over the world, an unlucky portion are often abandoned and demolished within time to be replaced by a newly constructed building. The reality of this, however, is the new construction ... -
Structured Living
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Architecture and its infrastructure act as a mediating tool defining the world around us by structuring experience. This thesis will define the consequence of building and how designers structure experience by opening and ... -
Structures Becoming Shadows: Evoking An Empathetic Perception Through The Construction of Mourning
(North Dakota State University, 2013)The thesis responds to the constructive thought and perception around death and the mourning and grieving processes of life. The typology being a crematorium/columbarium will emphasize this inevitable process in life and ... -
A Subaqueous Future
(North Dakota State University, 2022)A hundred years into the future, humanity and the world will experience dramatic changes. As climate change begins to alter our global environments, humanity must adapt to the changes it brings. The overall increase in ... -
subURBAN : redefining urban residential
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Suburbia is being called home to an increasing number of people living in Western societies. In the United States, more people live in the suburbs than the cities they surround, and 75% of all new construction is taking ... -
Sun and ice
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Sited in Barrow, Alaska - the northernmost city in North America - my conservatory design explores the challenges that climate and daylighting present 300 miles above the Arctic Circle. This “land of the midnight sun” ... -
Supportive Learning: Live, Grow
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis is an investigation into how design can facilitate and enhance learning for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders. By designing for groups of people with very specific needs, we learn how architecture can ... -
Sustainability of Time
(North Dakota State University, 2010)The Government is building a storage facility at Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert, which is where the dormitory complex would need to be as well. This is as structure that will have a program and life span of at least ... -
Sustainability: A Holistic Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Man’s relationship with nature started as a mutual relationship which slowly developed into man vs. nature. This altering ideology has developed humans to believe they are superior to nature. Rather than living in harmony ... -
Sustainable Connections: A Comprehensive Design of a Energy-Efficient Convention Center
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Sustainable Connections: A Comprehensive Design of a Energy-Efficient Convention Center is a design thesis focused on the issue how can adaptive sustainable methods and technologies be applied to a convention center to ... -
Sustainable Convenience
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Globally, society is on the cusp of substantial environmental changes. These changes start with insight into the current state of the environment, mindset changes that need to be made, then to the necessary lifestyle changes. ... -
Sustainable Engagement
(North Dakota State University, 2015)This thesis is my solution to how architecture can influence individuals to learn and live in a sustainable environment that excites its users. I have redefined sustainability as, “a social change involving individuals, ...