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Virtual World of Information
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
Currently, there is a disconnect between the digitization of the world and modern building design. This project attempts to answer the question, “how does ever-changing technology, and the culture that follows it influence ...
Ephemeral Population : Housing for a Transient Workforce
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
Western North Dakota is currently experiencing a tremendous oil boom which is attracting people from all over the country because of the prospects of money, work, and a better way of life. Communities are desperately trying ...
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 ...
Ecological Architecture : Reconnecting Environments
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
The typology for this facility derived from the problem concerning the separation of environments. The design will incorporate an Ecological Education and Research Center for Sustainable Development (EERCSD) within the ...
Building Within Our Bounds
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This graduate thesis explores where waste (or unutilized material) is being produced in the design methodology of a mixed-use building in Fargo, ND. There is waste produced in the construction process that is inevitable, ...
chain reaction
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This chain reaction thesis will be created by the necessity of human interaction. It is both an examination of human connection as well as spatial configurations. This will show how human connections are crucial to growth ...
TOWARD INTEGRATION : Collaborative Architecture and Design Methods
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This thesis investigates the current delivery methods architects use to create buildings in relation to the access to and quality of them. It pays special attention to investigating new delivery methods, which enable a ...
Boom Abodes : Designing for the Transition
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
With recent technological advances in oil extraction, communities across the Midwest are being hit by an oil boom. With a rapid growth of migrant workers flooding in to rural counties, economic strain and housing shortages ...
Urban Resurrection
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
Communities are becoming increasingly aware that current trends of expansive growth are not sustainable. Infill development, or the development of vacant or under-utilized sites within urban areas, can be an alternative ...
Systems for Social Change
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
Through the design of low-income housing in Fargo, North Dakota, this thesis will reevaluate the relationship between market forces and architecture, seeking to develop a new system for housing the low-income sector and ...