Architecture Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Interconnecting Architecture and Nature 

      Lease, Mariah Beverly (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      Over the last decade, if not more, Architecture has blown up and grown to be something that can be so wildly unique but also in today’s day and age, so incredibly modern. This being said, I think sometimes Architects ...

    • Breaking the Habit: A Fight Against the Monotony of Tract Housing 

      Wangler, Andrew (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      This project looks at tract housing from the perspective of the homeowner. Tract housing has caused an identity crisis within neighborhoods across the nation, and it’s time we start taking a more forward approach to ...

    • Multi-Minimal 

      Schoenfish, Tucker Darwin (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      The cost of living has started to increase quite drastically over the recent years. From renting an apartment, to buying or building a home. Land and material prices have skyrocketed, especially during and after the ...

    • Disconnect to Reconnect: Using Architecture and Master Planning to Aid in Personal Connection With Nature 

      Zitzow, Daniel Harrison (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      Technology is rooted in our society from a very young age, everywhere you look a child has some electronic device in their hands, impacting their lives. This is not necessarily a good thing for development and presents an ...

    • Arizona Arena: Ice in the Desert 

      Wigestrand, Cal (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      Sports have the ability to bring a whole city together, especially in a time of such division in this world, sports can bridge those differences, even if it is for just a few hours. For many, sports are a source for ...

    • Remembering and Rebuilding the Broken 

      Svidersky, Alyssa (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      Cities throughout time have grown, thrived, persisted, and prospered. Equivalently, time and time again, cities have been seized, destroyed, and flattened to an unimaginable state. Yet they rise again. Why? Because a city ...

    • The Reconnection of Nature and Health 

      Spaude, Kirsten (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      Healthcare is an ever-changing field and often a field of uncertainty of what will be around the next corner. As of recent we have faced new challenges such as the Covid-19 pandemic where the medical field had to shift ...

    • Pier Luigi Penzo: Football on Water and the Stadium Experience 

      Pichetti, Royce (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      The stadium experience is one that has evolved and been enjoyed for centuries. Stadium architecture, technology, and the sporting event itself has changed greatly yet many events tend to miss out on the atmospheric and ...

    • How Can Land Use Planning and Architectural Design Be Combined to Create a New Form of Residential Lake Shore Development? 

      Peterson, Trenton (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      This thesis envisions itself into the future to answer the questions of how we can allow numerous people to have the opportunity to acquire a residential waterfront property when the value of land continues to increase, ...

    • Celebrating the Past While Creating the Present & Imagining the Future Through the Hamline Midway Library 

      O'Connor, Hailey (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      Architecture is more than four walls and a roof. It becomes a beacon of a community. As a country the United States is relatively young, hence the architecture is not as historic as other countries. As a whole, there ...

    • Life Continues in Prison 

      Kubischta, Makala (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      This study is to create a prison environment that is attuned to the users. To design a prison that enhances the safety of interactions between staff and guards with inmates as well as inmates with each other. I want to ...

    • Returning Home: Collective Dwelling Through Incremental Architecure 

      Nelson, Zachary C. (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      Thomas Moore defined home at three scales: the psyche which shelters our souls, the physical place that we make domesticity in, and the broader metaphysical context in which we find our culture, history, and selves ...

    • Horace Mann Elementary School Modernized 

      Krutsinger, Brooke (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      School safety has been a hot topic for the nation for decades, and it seems to be getting worse every year. This causes parents to feel the need to keep their students at home to keep them safe. However, can a floor plan ...

    • Retrofitting Architectural Environments in Response to an Evolving Workplace 

      Jordheim, Lexi Cheyenne (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      The typology of this thesis is centered around Architectural Environments within commercial office buildings. The theoretical premise is based on the statement that people are less productive when their work environment ...

    • Architecture of Aging: The Impact of Architecture on Palliative Care and Hospice 

      Johnson, Lilly (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      Hospice care provides empathetic care for people in the last phases of terminal illness, so that they may live as fully and comfortably as possible. Palliative care in combination with hospice care is intended to help ...

    • Healing Architecture: Lung Cancer Research and Treatment Center 

      Grones, Jessica (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      Emotional well-being is important for everyone. It can be hard to encompass a healthy mentality when cancer is a prevalent factor in your life. People affected by cancer spend a lot of time in a hospital, a place that ...

    • A New Root: Architecture for Food 

      Gilbertson, Rebekkah R. (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      Only 17% of America’s land is considered ideal for agricultural purposes. However, traditional agriculture ruins our land in the long run by depleting the soil of essential nutrients. By conserving the land, we can reap ...

    • Protect, Restore, Connect: Using Architecture to Help Save the Redwoods 

      Foster, Ian (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      In the recent past we have seen a rapid decline in the presence of old growth Redwood groves, particularly Coast Redwoods groves in northern California and southern Oregon. For various reasons, we have been losing these ...

    • A Methodology of Calculating the Carbon Footprint of a Building 

      Kane, Kaitlyn (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      Environmentalism and conservation are two things that are very important to me. It is so enjoyable to be in a place where so little others have been. Walking through the woods where no human has adapted is precious. ...

    • Biophilic Architecture & Mental Health 

      Chamu, Litzy (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      This thesis proposes the effects of biophilic interaction on people experiencing and struggling with mental health issues. In order to properly treat patients with mental health issues, the psychology behind the ...