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Mending the Gap: Taking Advantage of Missed Opportunities Through Bridge Design
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Can a bridge be more than just a passageway to get from one side of a natural feature to another? Can different typologies be integrated into bridge design to create more of a destination than just a passage? Bridges ...
Bridging the Gap: Adaptive Reuse of an Intergenerational Learning Center
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
This design thesis adaptively reuses the former St. Louis County Jail to house an independent living facility and a preschool that incorporates an Intergenerational Learning Center, located in the Downtown Waterfront ...
Dignity and Design: Architecture for the Vision and Hearing Impaired
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
This thesis is aiming to design better for those with hearing or sight loss. Since these are sensory disabilities they directly affect the way in which people experience architecture. With the numbers rising of people ...
TriPeaks Montessori
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Blending architecture with landscape is not a new feature in design. For the Montessori schooling system, directly relating the natural world into the school’s methods of teaching is crucial for the development of the ...
Saudade - rethinking deathcare
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
This thesis explores the manner in which architecture can more sympathetically respond to people in a time of loss and grievance. Through adaptively repurposing a historic structure in Minneapolis, MN, a crematory and ...
Intramural cycling environment : Bassett Creek Pedal Club
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Understanding a specific need of the public is very important when looking at how a building can promote a healthy lifestyle, while saving energy and bringing a community closer together. Minneapolis, Minnesota, along with ...
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 ...
Nature of Hospitality
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This thesis searches to provide an answer to the question: how is hospitality expressed in
architectural terms and how does this affect our perception of space? The Building Typology
for analysis of the problem is a ...
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 ...
Main Street Visual & Performing Art Center
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The community of North Branch, Minnesota lacks a suitable fine art culture. The school district is unable to provide a quality fine art education due to lack of funding. There are few opportunities for locals to become ...