Browsing Architecture Theses by Subject "Buildings, Prefabricated."

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    • Boom Abodes : Designing for the Transition 

      Davis, Benjamin (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      With recent technological advances in oil extraction, communities across the Midwest are being hit by an oil boom. With a rapid growth of migrant workers flooding in to rural counties, economic strain and housing shortages ...

    • Modular Montessori: Educating Towards Ecological Sustainability 

      Schmidt, Thomas (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      The world has experienced rapid change in the last fifty years. Though most change can be counted as good, there has been a fair amount of negative changes happening that continue to be major issues today. Issues such ...

    • A New Generation2: The Improper Appropriation of the Modern Housing Market in Today’s Society, Taking a Look at a New Generation’s Necessities and Ambitions 

      Vonasek, Dane (North Dakota State University, 2020)
      In many cities throughout the USA, recent graduates have to deal with increasing rent prices with a very limited income. Standard apartment buildings and other types of dwellings are fairly standard with space and cost. ...

    • Plug it in: A perpetual living system 

      Nelson, Christopher (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      Plug it in explores the question -- are the principles and guidelines of modularity sufficient to accommodate a community and yield a city. The problem will be expressed by the design of a mixed-use potential building with ...

    • PODs and MODs : Modularity as a Response to the Skills Gap 

      Cristy, Joshua Kyle (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      PODs & MODs focuses on vocational trades schools, design build programs, entrepreuneurial maker space startups, modular shipping container builders and the manufacturing industry to investigate the issues companies are ...

    • Rekindling Refugees 

      Pardo, Paolo (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      This Thesis is a social housing project for refugees from recent conflicts in the middle east and aims to provide a good standard of living compared to what is usually available to refugees. There will be millions of people ...