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Dreaming and Perceiving: An Approach to Dwelling in the City
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This thesis aims to answer the question; how can we slow down our perception of city living to create an appropriate setting that reinterprets aspects of community living into an urban setting? The typology is a mixed use ...
Lessons from the polis : the Minneapolis Museum of Art
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Philosophers Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Hans-Georg Gadamer have critiqued the modern museum as a place of art for the sake of art, where the aesthetics of the work have come to dominate the conversation. In the Relevance of ...
Nesting: Dwelling through Surrealistic Spaces within the Urban Fabric of Minneapolis
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
The next generation requires humble dwelling spaces within cities hosting problematic urban complexities. While the city attempts to establish order, issues of functionality, density, and economics, take precedent. ...
The Damages of Demolition
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
The goal of this thesis is to compare the effects of restoring a historic building versus the process of demolition and new construction for the same typology. By quantifying the embodied energy put into the historic ...
Lake Street Teen Center
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
The Lake Street Teen Center addresses the question how can design positively impact a place susceptible to delinquent behavior? The Typology for the investigation of this problem is a center for teens. The Theoretical ...
Dwelling in Nomadic Architecture: Transitional Housing for the Suddenly and Chronically Homeless
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
The goal of this thesis project is to create a welcoming and respectful space to house, educate, and rehabilitate the chronic
homeless population in the Minneapolis area. The challenge of this premise is to provide ...
Urban elder care
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
My thesis project focused on the design aspects of integrating assisted living care facilities with a childcare facility or an animal shelter. The Eden Alternative nonprofit has conducted research and has shown the benefits ...
Restoring Veterans Through Companionship: The Study between Rural and Urban Context
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
How does design differentiate between rural and urban sites? If the parameters are set and the same program is used for each, which context will be more successful?
This thesis focuses on two issues that affect the ...
Building as Bridge: Re-imagining Sustainable Living Through Symphonic Design
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
For German Philosopher, Martin Heidegger, a bridge is a manifestation of the fourfold—Earth, Sky, Divinities, and Mortals—which is at the root of all dwelling. He believed that preserving this fourfold is how we dwell in ...
The Sacred Qualities of the Mundane: Using Music and Architecture to Achieve Harmony in the Workplace
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
This thesis project is intended to critique the daily ritual we fall into has humans. We wake up, go to work, come home and to do it all again tomorrow. How can we design the workplace to be a space that makes you want to ...