Browsing Architecture Theses by Subject "Architecture -- Human factors."

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    • The Architecture of Happiness 

      Larson, Morgan (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      According to Architect John Lautner, the purpose of architecture is to “improve human life. Create timeless, free, joyous spaces for all activities in life” (Lautner, n.d.). His goal for this statement was to push architecture ...

    • Biophilia : A Healing Connection 

      Jensen, Kelsey (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      Throughout recent years more people have been inhabiting cites which creates growth of the built environment and a greater disconnect between humans and nature. It becomes a matter of finding solutions to settle this ...

    • Biophilic Veterans Rehab Center: A Place for Healing 

      Hinrichs, Jacob (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      The topic of this thesis project is a veterans rehab center that utilizes biophilic design. Biophilia is thought to help expedite the healing process for many kinds of ailments from mental to physical. The rehab center ...

    • body soul inHABIT 

      Cayley-Wieler, Jill (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      This thesis investigates the human body and its proportions in relation to the comfort and security experienced within a space. This thesis also takes a deeper analytical look at how the treatment of our own bodies has ...

    • Fostering Responsible Behavior 

      AlQattan, Ali (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Educated children must comprehend what their duties towards the environment are and start fostering responsible behavior seriously. If children go to school with means to learn science, literature, etc. they might as well ...

    • In Human 

      Carter, Christopher (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      This thesis aims to utilize architecture as the medium to connect children to their environments and to develop them into social beings. Jan Gehl, a Danish architect and urban design consultant, once said, “Only architecture ...

    • Natural Healing: Physical and Spiritual Healing (in a Powerful and Nurturing Setting) 

      McGinn, Rachel (North Dakota State University, 2016)
      This thesis, Natural Healing: Physical and Spiritual Healing (in a Powerful and Nurturing Setting), examines how healing spaces in a clinical setting can influence the healing process of cancer patients undergoing treatment ...

    • Oak Hospital : a holistic approach to healthcare 

      Rodriguez Padilla, Esau (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      Biophilic design has the ability to influence lives physically and mentally. Unbalanced health issues, lack of assistance at home, and lengthy distances to medical facilities, create life and death scenarios. Due to these ...

    • The Synthesis of Balance: Conscious Design Based on the Lived Experience 

      Aberle, Kaitlyn (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      Architecture become harmonious when it is experienced as a triad of the lived reality, the perceived experience, and the impact it has on the memory of the soul. The physical reality of the built environment can highly ...