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    • Borderwalk: Spatial Politics and Cultural Intimacies on the U.S.-Mexican Border 

      Kuster, Kristopher (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      By definition, borders lie on the edges. This project investigates the spatial implications of politically defined borders, and the effects that these materializations have in the context of urban space and the movement ...
    • Cradle for change : finding the space between home and homelessness 

      Economos, Jason (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      This thesis is about creating a place where the poor and homeless can live without fear of where the money for their living arrangements is coming from and where they can be taught useful skills for reintegrating into ...
    • The Edge as In-Between: Ruin and Rebirth at San Francisco's Sutro Baths 

      Brat, Anshul (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 ...
    • Future Forum: Fostering Important Conversations 

      Gapp, Ryan (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      As a species we are approaching a convergence of a confluence of factors that will determine the fate of all future conscious experience as we know it. How we use technology in the near future will determine this playing ...
    • The Hierarchy of innovation 

      Dahl, Taylor (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Currently we have the opportunity to use architecture as a vehicle for innovation. The thesis title “The Hierarchy of Innovation” is an analogy and in this case relates to “a hierarchy of needs” for the current society. ...
    • Listen: A Sensory Experience 

      Hatcher, Allison (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      This thesis project uses interpretive and evaluative research methods to examine how best to bring two social circles together through intentional design, education, and immersion. The project is a design proposal for a ...
    • Nexus: Creating Necessary Bonds Through Communal Living 

      Colbert, Sean (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      The main topic of this this thesis is community based public housing, meaning that this project focuses on the communal aspects of public housing and how they can be incorporated into a building in order to create a more ...
    • On the Edge of Empathy: Amplifying the Veteran's Voice 

      Badilla, Daniel (North Dakota State University, 2020)
      We live in a world of physical and conceptual edges that guide and shape our lives, and challenge us every day to choose whether to cross them or to remain within their shepherding corrals. Often we forget that edges ...
    • Overcoming: Guiding Individuals through Liminal Conditions on the Pathway to Adulthood 

      Kohlgraf, Kristopher (North Dakota State University, 2020)
      The approach to student housing has been stuck in the past while its inhabitants are evolving towards their future. This thesis research will examine the significance and importance of a building as a rite of passage ...
    • 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 ...
    • Wayfinding in Virtual Reality: Wayfinding Through the Lens of Virtual Reality in Videogame Design 

      Zachman, Alyssa (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      This thesis, Virtual Architecture: application of architectural design within the realm of video games and virtual realities, examines and challenges how architecture is viewed in a simulated setting by its users as ...