Architecture Theses: Recent submissions
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Independence for Young Adults With Disabilities
(North Dakota State University, 2021)In today’s society there are young adults with disabilities who need assistance with day to day activities. Most of these young adults either live at home with their parents who help them, in nursing homes, or even in ... -
Homeostasis
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Homeostasis is the self-regulating process by which stability is maintained during the adjustment to conditions. This is similarly seen in how our built environment provides stability to our ever-changing health, wellness, ... -
Architecture of the Amalgam: A Spiritual Looking In and Out at the Constellation of the Polaris Craters
(North Dakota State University, 2021)The search for the spiritual in architecture is one of the most persistent topics in the history of humanity. Stonehenge was a constructed calendar that framed the solstices. The angels of cathedrals were intermediaries ... -
Live + Work + Play: Engaging and Revitalizing the Broader Urban Community Through Sport
(North Dakota State University, 2021)As most professional sports leagues continue moving towards a minor league model in an effort to develop athletes right out of high school as opposed to drafting players from the college ranks, the question of where these ... -
Down to Earth
(North Dakota State University, 2021)My thesis project dives into the question, “Can subterranean architecture create a more sustainable design?” The idea is to submerge the architecture into the landscape for the purpose of creating designs that can be more ... -
Envision: The Future of Office Space
(North Dakota State University, 2021)The future of office work is in a rush for a quick yet long lasting solution. Offices need a space that will allow people to access work safely without worrying about the spread of any germs and allowing themselves to ... -
Aesthetogenesis: Designing a Healthier City
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Experimental cities and theoretical exercises may seem inconsequential to the realities of today but they can shed light on how future developments and practices can be implemented. The technology exists to heal the ... -
Designing for Connection to Alleviate Urban Stress
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Today, it is estimated that over half of the world’s population are living in urban areas. With the ever-rising totals of the human population locating to the urban environment, the effects that the built environment ... -
Stimulating Existing Frameworks
(North Dakota State University, 2021)With existing architectural structures all over the world, an unlucky portion are often abandoned and demolished within time to be replaced by a newly constructed building. The reality of this, however, is the new construction ... -
How Design Influences Lifestyle: Built vs Natural Environment
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Architecture has influenced human life from the beginning of time. There is no doubt that it changes the way we perceive the world and everything in it. The focus of this thesis research is the ability for architecture ... -
Ag Zero: Architectural Design + Midwest Agriculture
(North Dakota State University, 2021)The Urban Architecture communities and the Rural Agricultural Communities have been separated for so much of history. The profession of architecture can stretch far beyond just the typical urban environment. The ... -
Ecolux Communities
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Seven years, 103 days, 40 minutes and 17 seconds... On September 17, 2020, Artists Gan Golan and Andrew Boyd displayed a clock in Manhattan Square. This clock, however, displayed exactly how long we have until an ... -
Designing for Memory Loss
(North Dakota State University, 2021)We all live with the fact that someday our loved ones will need to have help with day to day life and that we will too. As of right now there is a generally negative feeling towards moving out of one’s home and into an ... -
Warrior's Ranch: Combating the Invisible Enemy
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Warrior’s Ranch is a domiciliary mental health rehabilitation facility that is designed to help treat veterans who are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychological and physical disorders. The ... -
Business center for independent musicians
(North Dakota State University, 2005)“In music, the meter, tempo and related rhythms are referred to as time. In architecture, there exists the idea of the fourth dimension. This theory suggests that architectural forms and spaces are experienced not just in ... -
Built on the Rock
(North Dakota State University, 2021)American church buildings age, deteriorate, and vanish, their congregants dwindling and lacking the financial resources to build or maintain them. Simultaneously, a global pandemic sheds light on shortcomings in ... -
Space Sky Earth: Weather Learning Museum and Research Center
(North Dakota State University, 2021)A rainstorm now and again can be a calming experience. With our climate changing and a focus on more sustainable built projects, we can only wonder if it is enough to help offset the carbon footprint that architects ... -
Building Blocks: Re-framing Urban Inestment and Community Health Through Equitable Empowerment
(North Dakota State University, 2021)The modern city is failing at embracing the value of difference and common ground is fading. The implicit effects of urban policy are dividing cities and putting their most marginalized communities in an even more ... -
Public Memory and Forgetting: Making Visible the Invisibility of Loss in the San Francisco AIDS Pandemic
(North Dakota State University, 2021)It is well known that we depend on our memory for our individual and collective sense of identity, meaning, and purpose. We assign significance to past, present, and future events through inter-subjective and ordered ... -
The Materiality of Time and Water: An Emotional and Cognitive Reinvigoration of Sustainability on the Edge of the California Coast
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Ancient man had a full-bodied integration into the divinity of the earth that we have displaced in our modern age. We have become subjects of the technological advancements of today and as a result are tasked with ...