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    • Adaptable Spaces for Changing Paces : Design for Demographic Shifts 

      Lutterman, Laura (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      The built environment is currently designed with (only) the present demographic profile in mind. Designing in this manner fails to prepare for changes in demographic profiles and creates an obstacle for users when the ...
    • Architecture and the Literary Imagination: T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land Reinterpreted as Reading and Pedagogical Space 

      Lee, Whitney (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      "And I will show you something different from either / Your shadow at morning striding behind you / Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you" (The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot). How can architecture, together with poetic ...
    • Bringing the Rave out of the Cave 

      Bren, Travis (North Dakota State University, 2020)
      By examing the types of space raves inhabited, from the anarchist grass-root orgins of the urban undergrounds to the vast landscapes of commodified festivals of today, I question: what would the ideal 21st century rave ...
    • Catalytic converter : facilitating change in the places that need it most 

      Andersen, Dane (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      This thesis investigates the question, how can struggling American cities be rejuvenated in the rapidly evolving context of the twenty-first century? The typology explored is a community design center. The site for this ...
    • Compressed Agriculture Initiative 

      Homic, Thomas (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Increasingly within urban population growth there is a greater demand on the agricultural resources needed to keep these populations properly fed. As these stresses on the agricultural space and supply chain increase, ...
    • Economically Remodeled Warehouse: The Use of Passive and Sustainable Systems to Repurpose an Abandoned Car Manufacturing Plant 

      Olstad, Emilee (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      Sustainable and passive design can be used to remodel an industrial site, while preserving historical context and creating a productive mixed-use space. This thesis project will take an existing abandoned automobile ...
    • New Old Stock 

      Lippert, Nicholas (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      This project, Detroit’s New Workforce: A Detroit Renewable Energy Workforce Training Center, examines how and where the sense of place exists within a construction. From that conclusion, it will investigate how sense of ...
    • Pataphysical Prosthesis: Bringing the 3D Printing Industry from Detroit, MI to the World 

      Johnson, Carmen (North Dakota State University, 2016)
      Modern architectural theory criticizes the use of computers in architectural design for producing cold, inhuman environments. How then should we use the fascinating technology at our fingertips if we are told that doing ...
    • Resurgence 

      Groth, Catherine (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      Detroit, Michigan, is on the cusp of the biggest economic crisis of its history. This architectural thesis will seek to blend the elements of socio-economics, cultural relevance and historical significance in order to ...
    • Theatric depth : the theatre and the public 

      Atchison, Benjamin (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      My Thesis explores the way architecture can evoke a more meaningful relationship to the public realm. The project will attempt to reawaken a “space of participation” by challenging the changing understudy of public and ...