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subURBAN : redefining urban residential
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
Suburbia is being called home to an increasing number of people living in Western societies. In the United States, more people live in the suburbs than the cities they surround, and 75% of all new construction is taking ...
Architecture as desire : exploring the origins of our desire to hear music
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Our mind is subconsciously entertained and potentially enslaved by classification into categories. A typology is a system used for putting things into groups according to how they are similar and architecture has equally ...
Manufacturing: A New Way
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
This thesis project, titled Manufacturing: a new way, will examine manufacturing buildings, and the working conditions that exist there. The typology will be a brewery with a area of 60,000 square feet. The guiding idea ...
Aeronautical destinations
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
One can arrive at as many as three or more airports on the way to their destination with two layovers during the trip, KFAR to KMSP to KSLC to KPSP for example. How can an airport design be more than just a vehicle for ...
Designing Through Disaster
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
This thesis project is about how we can provide a cost and time effective source of emergency housing for those just affected by a natural disaster. Natural disasters rarely have a warning signal to them, and even when ...
The Nature of happiness
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Designed as a 384,300 SF urban mixed-use community Node and placed in Minneapolis, MN this thesis attempts to show how architectural design may respond to the overwhelming pollution, poor quality of life and mass urban ...
From Chaos to the Dinner Table: Transforming the Relationship of Production and Consumption in the Mill District of Minneapolis, MN
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
How can the rituals surrounding the dinner table inform our customs of production and consumption to create architectural space that resides in the transformative gap where consumer is producer and producer is consumer? ...
Hmong Funeral Rites and The Space Between
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
The sacred has always been a part of human life from the beginning of time. Religion and faith throughout the timeline has driven multiple major revolutions. They have answered questions that could not be answered, but now ...
Form Through Photo
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
How can photography can influence architectural design? By looking at case studies, this thesis assesses how geometry, permeability and reactions can influence the architecture of a historic building in Minneapolis.
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 ...