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    • Bridge: A Library as Interconnection for Culture and Function 

      Vang, Shelley (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      My thesis is focused on creating an opportunity for the exchange and connection between individuals, cultures, communities, and knowledge we gain from one another. Located in the Fargo-Moorhead area, the two cities have a ...
    • Caesura: Enhancing the Culture of Fargo-Moorhead 

      Eggen, Jennifer (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      The downtown area of Fargo-Moorhead is growing exponentially, yet the rapid boom in growth may result in a monotonous city center. Downtown needs an attraction — something other than shops, bars, restaurants, and apartments. ...
    • Emergent Urbanism: Architectural Place-Making in Response to A Minnesota High Speed Train Network 

      Sortland, Nicholas (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      The way existing cities are set up and built is unsustainable, and risky. The bulk of new growth is occurring on the fringe of cities, where the streets and buildings have been designed for the automobile as the primary ...
    • Flood Research Center 

      Wright, Richard (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      This project will outline research into the flood prevention methods in nature and in the man-made world to translate into a new innovative inland flood research center design in Moorhead, Minnesota. This project was in ...
    • Healing with Colors 

      Garcia, Sydney (North Dakota State University, 2020)
      This study focuses on the relationship between color frequency and healing the human body. There is evidence that color has been implemented as a healing process through therapy, dating back to thousands of years ago. I ...
    • MSCTC Redesign: Bringing Higher Education into the 21st Century 

      Jaeger, James Scott (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      Colleges and universities are uniquely important to our future as a society as they harbor and cultivate the minds of the future generations of leaders. It’s extremely important for these spaces to cater to learning and ...
    • 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 ...
    • The Psychological Impact of Architectural Design 

      Bordwell, Jenna (North Dakota State University, 2020)
      The theory of this thesis is to consider the relationship between the built environment and its psychological impact. The average person spends about 80-90% of their time indoors. Space, colors, aesthetics, materials, ...
    • The Space Between: A Manifesto for Designing Socially Engaged Communities 

      Malnaa, Alex (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 ...
    • Unstitch: Saving an Urban Fabric 

      Hillen, Carissa (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      Shopping malls were designed to be communal spaces that mimicked town squares, where one could shop, socialize, and feel connected. The architect intended for them to be dense, to promote walkability, and have mixed-uses ...
    • Urban Design Assessment 

      Harnisch, Tyler (North Dakota State University, 2016)
      Communities are continually following social life cycles, growing and decaying as society fluctuates. In order to establish a positive connection between advancement and growth one must develop a guiding principle. This ...