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The Center for Equality: an LGBT and Community Resource
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Architecture can facilitate the creation of a comfortable, welcoming and uniting space for its users. This thesis seeks a solution to the need for LGBT-affirming spaces. These spaces are necessary for a minority community ...
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 ...
Catalytic converter : facilitating change in the places that need it most
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This thesis investigates the question, how can struggling American cities be rejuvenated in the rapidly evolving context of the twenty-first century? The typology explored is a community design center. The site for this ...
[NURTURE]well-being
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
The project typology is a community center within an urban city master plan. The project is located in Aurora, Colorado and investigates the problem of disconnected neighborhoods. The theoretical premise claims the ...
Growth Through the Past: Cooperation of the Past, Present, and Future in Revitalizing Clarissa, Minnesota
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This thesis goes on to answer the question of whether a piece of the past can be used as a catalyst for growth in a small community. By adapting a current piece of architecture into a tool that can be used by the residents ...
Stillwater Community Center
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
How can current needs be addressed to form a space that adds value and connectivity to a community?
This is a study of how community driven needs creates a structure that can be used in multiple ways. Using common needs ...
Architecture and Cultural Definition
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
Typology: North Dakota American Indian Center
Site: Chief Looking’s Indian Village Bismarck, ND
Area: 23,000 sq ft
This thesis will investigate the role of architecture in representing and retaining a culture ...
Architecture & exile : loss and discovery in the design of a refugee facility
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
My thesis examines the relationship between exile and creativity through the design of a refugee facility for learning and temporary living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Prominent philosopher Edward Said describes exile as ...
ethos-mores architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
This thesis provides some answers to the question, how, as an outsider, do we begin to understand cultural values that are not ours and how does one measure the degree of threat to a minority culture when cultural values ...
Communities - Progress Through Gathering
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
The ideas of how architecture can help rural communities stay viable in the twenty-first century will be explored through the development and design of a multi-use community center. Located in Grantsburg, a small rural ...