Browsing Architecture Theses by Subject "Sustainable architecture."
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Adaptable Architecture : architecture that changes through time
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Just as living things grow and adapt, so should the things we create. In this juxtaposition lays the ability to propel our creations into a cyclical lifestyle of rebirth through functionality. Spatial experiences are ... -
Adaptable Architecture in a Regenerative Medicine Facility
(North Dakota State University, 2013)The proposed regenerative medicine facility, in downtown Rochester, MN is the platform for investigating how a building can adapt with the expansion of human knowledge. The realization of adaptability in architecture can ... -
Adaptive Architecture: Design for a Declining Global Population
(North Dakota State University, 2010)In the face of a declining human population, our ability to plan for and adapt to future circumstances will be essential if we, as a global community, are to not only preserve our built environment, but also ensure its ... -
Arcology
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Arcology is an approximately 30,000 square foot transit center located within the Ford Site redevelopment plan in St. Paul, MN. The core concept of the project lies in its incorporation of algae, a diverse group of water-based ... -
Becoming the Land: The Synthesis of Architecture and Nature
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Can the creation of natural elements be replicated through our built environment? Can the architecture become an extension of its landscape? Humans have been building and creating architecture for centuries using methods ... -
Community Design Build
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis provides some answers to the question, how might a restorative community-based residential design build center/curriculum be created where the structure itself resonates with the embedded values of such an ... -
Contrasting History
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This graduate thesis examines the inherent meaning in a constructed building and using that to find a new purpose for that building that embraces its style, age, and purpose. Through this connection with history, the ... -
Designing for a New Way of Living
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This graduate thesis explores the ideas and exploration of creating architecture as an educational instrument that will inform its occupants about a new, more environmentally-friendly way of living. The design itself becomes ... -
Disassemblable Architecture for Rural Communities
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Title: Disassemblable architecture for rural communities Introduction: Our society today has been experiencing a mass migration within its own borders. People are leaving the economically stale rural communities for ... -
Downtown Development: A Lifestyle Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This thesis provides some answers to the question: how can the implementation by architects of minimal energy consumption and better material utilization in design begin to stop the wasteful ways so prevalent in our current ... -
Elements of the Office Workspace
(North Dakota State University, 2010)When examining office buildings in the world today, it is proper to look deeper at the correlation between productivity and the environments in which people work. In analyzing the office spaces, studies have shown that ... -
EOS 1: Evolution of Sustainability
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Human interaction is a real need fulfilled by simple communication, verbal or non verbal. Individualism and congregation are part of everyday settings. The built environment has a large influence on how and when these ... -
Flight: Reducing the Environmental Impact of Air Travel while Incorporating Nature within Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2019)How can an airport be designed to be sustainable, highly efficient, economical and a destination for people to travel to? Often an airport is the first thing people see when traveling to a new place, and all too often the ... -
Grand Coulee Living and Retail/ An Environmental Approach Towards Sustainable Living
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Will there be a paradigm shift in the way people build and live because of varying economic conditions? The building typology will be a sustainable mid-rise mixed use building. The world’s population currently and in the ... -
Immigrant Entrepreneurial Development Center
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Can architecture redefine the American Dream by assisting immigrants to establish themselves in a community? This question stemmed from various ideas pertaining to architectural movements and their impacts on the built ... -
Recycling the Oil Boom
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis provides some answers to the question, how can a small community sustainably adapt to a localized oil boom? The typology for this examination to the problem is a recycling center. The theoretical premise/unifying ... -
Regenerative Architecture: Making Nature an Equal Partner in Design
(North Dakota State University, 2019)The current example in the field of architecture today is one of degeneration and obsolete building technologies. Regenerative architecture is the practice of engaging the natural world as the medium for, and producer of ... -
Solid Rock Physical Rehabilitation Center
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This thesis explores some possible answers to the question, “What is the correlation between physical, social, and emotional attributes?” The typology examined for this thesis is a physical rehabilitation facility. People’s ... -
Sustainability of Time
(North Dakota State University, 2010)The Government is building a storage facility at Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert, which is where the dormitory complex would need to be as well. This is as structure that will have a program and life span of at least ... -
Sustainable Engagement
(North Dakota State University, 2015)This thesis is my solution to how architecture can influence individuals to learn and live in a sustainable environment that excites its users. I have redefined sustainability as, “a social change involving individuals, ...