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Rivers Edge: An Adult Participatory Net Zero Community
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
“It is truly a democratic building. Nearly everyone who lives and works on the site has a hand in determining how it performs.” - jv DeSousa
We live in a time of social change - we have been given the challenge of ...
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 ...
Radiant Future: Dwelling, Pruitt Igoe, and the Imprint of Communist Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
This project seeks to solve the issue of public housing that America is facing in the
present day. This housing sector is in crisis, and needs a renewed emphasis on quality
and regard for human dignity, as well as an ...
Thinking Ahead: Re-Imagining Higher Education through Active Learning and Adaptive Space
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
An analytical re-imagining of the higher educational model through architecture has the ability to redefine the fundamentals of collegiate study. Traditional higher education pedagogies impede on meaningful education and ...
Modular Montessori: Educating Towards Ecological Sustainability
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
The world has experienced rapid change in the last
fifty years. Though most change can be counted
as good, there has been a fair amount of negative
changes happening that continue to be major issues
today. Issues such ...
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 ...
Serene Senescence: Modular Aging in Place in Fargo, North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
As the population of baby boomers reaches retirement age, the
question of how to house and properly care for this generation
comes to mind. Many of the smaller living spaces geared toward
the senior population are ...
A Threshold for the Homeless: Between the Smooth and the Striated
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
In today’s society the homeless are often marginalized because they do not fit the normalized idea of sedentary dwelling in post-industrial societies. This leads to a misunderstanding of the motivations and personal values ...
Healing Pathways: The Journey to Completely Healing
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Technology has impacted the human perception of health through monumental advancements, but the process of healing has been diminished to where the sole focus of health care has become “to resolve” instead of “to heal”. ...
In Human
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
This thesis aims to utilize architecture as the medium to connect children to their environments and to develop them into social beings. Jan Gehl, a Danish architect and urban design consultant, once said, “Only architecture ...