Browsing Architecture Theses by Subject "South Dakota."
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Black Hills Conservation Center : connecting back to the environment
(North Dakota State University, 2015)This thesis looks to answer the question: “How can we create architecture that connects us back to the environment?” A conservation center is the project typology for this thesis, located in Spearfish, SD. The design looks ... -
Catalyzing Tourism: Through Integration of Cultural Heritage
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis investigates the question, “How can architecture reflect a region’s cultural heritage and work as a catalyst for tourism?” The typology for the examination of this problem is a resort style hotel. The idea ... -
The Center for Equality: an LGBT and Community Resource
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Architecture can facilitate the creation of a comfortable, welcoming and uniting space for its users. This thesis seeks a solution to the need for LGBT-affirming spaces. These spaces are necessary for a minority community ... -
Educative Junction
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Educative Junction: A new model for public high school education. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. To inspire a greater value of mandatory public education in the eyes of students, a school built to accommodate that education ... -
Engineering The Digital Workplace: The Architecture of Changing Social Interaction
(North Dakota State University, 2013)“Engineering the Digital Workplace” explores how meaningful design can inform, and be informed by, social interaction in an increasingly connected and less private society. The thesis proposes to create a model for how ... -
Environmental Synergism
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis researches and examines the impact that an environmental education center would have on the public in a wilderness setting. The public lacks an educational facility that can model a more sustainable way of life ... -
Life, Learning, and Sustainablity
(North Dakota State University, 2012)The thesis Life, Learning, and Sustainablility examines the way in which architects can instill a sense of sentiment towards sustainability in future generations. Architects deplete our resources, and therefore through ... -
Live Active : An Architectural Response to Rehabilitation
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis researches and examines the way we respond to our environment, both natural and built. According to Newtonian physics, for every action there is an equal or opposite reaction. Default stairs, walls, windows, ... -
MindSet
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Society utilizes space as a tool to distance its most challenging and difficult citizens. In examining the question, “How can architecture influence the re-establishment of psychiatric stability in the mentally ill?”, the ... -
Reawakening Cultural Significance: Ruin Exploration in its Full Embodiment
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis aims to evoke a “historical consciousness” through the embodied experience of architecture. Specifically speaking, this architecture will reawaken the history of the Native American culture through creative ... -
Reconnect the aging: residential assisted living for the elders in a Great Plains small town
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis project, Reconnect the Aging: Residential Assisted Living for the Elders in a Great Plains Small Town, addresses forgotten and unnoticed elderly in society and how they can be reconnected to the surrounding ... -
Shedding Light: On the End to Native Genocide
(North Dakota State University, 2019)The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has seen historical trauma. Located roughly 75 miles southeast of the Black Hills in South Dakota, Pine Ridge has received international attention for its incredible despair. Plagued for ...