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Architecture in motion : an exploration of kinetic space
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Architecture in motion: More than just an idea, it is a concept quickly becoming a reality. The real question is how will this concept shape architecture of the future. Exploration of kinetic architecture and tectonics ...
Adagio : étude for the practice and performance of piano
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Adagio: Étude for the Practice and Performance of Piano explores the interaction between people and music in a community, and how the production of music can be available to anyone. Interaction with music has a multitude ...
Delight in Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This project explores delight in buildings and how we experience them. It states that the personality of a building as exhibited in individual traits is what we find delight in, as humans tend to personify things they ...
Sensory Architecture : Redefining How One Interprets Space
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This design thesis will address the question: how do combinations of our senses influence the way we interact with our surrounding built environment? The typology chosen to evaluate this question is an addition to an ...
Digital Oasis
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
This thesis approaches the issue “As technology further develops our
abilities to communicate across distance, what role will public space play,
if any, in the future shaping of our cities?” The Theoretical Premise/
Unifying ...
Illinois . An Exposure to Sensory Interaction
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
This thesis intends to establish a new interpretation of the museum - a museum that is solely influenced by the presence or absence of sensory interaction through installations. Architectural installations have the ability ...
Living utopia : challenging education as a machine through the design of architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Philosopher Jonathan Powers argues that current culture and society are engaging a utopian ideology. This model began in the 16th century when the educational system sought to reduce all knowledge to eidetic (visual) ...
Harmony A-new : alternative high school design
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
The typology of this thesis is a 14,440 sq foot public high school for underprivileged students of the Chicago Public School system. This thesis is an exploration of the potential for architecture to promote the overall ...
Viscera(l): Catharsis and the Treatment of Chronic Illness
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Chronic disease represents the most extreme case of illness simply because it cannot
be taken away. Irritable Bowel Disease (IBD) has remained primarily invisible from society,
forcing its 5 million patients to fluctuate ...
Edges of the Mind: Reconstructing an Urban Pontos
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Edge-world. The horizon of our lived reality, this material world within which we all exist, is one composed of edges and defined by them, an edge-world.
To consider the nature of a town, of a city, of any conceivable ...