Architecture Theses: Recent submissions

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    • A New Adventure: Encouraging People to Go Out to Discover American History through Architecture and the Environment that Surrounds It 

      Johnson, Benjamin (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      There are towns and historical places all over the country that currently do not have a space that allows for historical learning. Without these places of learning the history and knowledge tends to die off disappearing ...

    • Relocated Roots: A Community Focused Urban Agriculture Facility 

      Mills, Alexandra (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      The design of 407 New Street seeks to introduce the agricultural sector into the urban environment. By integrating agriculture into the city context, the project aims to introduce a new typological identity to the neighborhood ...

    • The Space Between: A Manifesto for Designing Socially Engaged Communities 

      Malnaa, Alex (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      Suburbanization, low-density residential, commercial and civic zones with expansive, under-utilized parking lots have created physical and social distances between people. Each typological zone is segregated from the others ...

    • A New Anoka: A Suburban Infill Project 

      Hegseth, Jon (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      The purpose of this thesis is to study a pocket of land along an existing train line in Anoka, MN. It is a pocket of land that was not developed due to its zoning for industrial use. The adjacent land has been developed ...

    • PODs and MODs : Modularity as a Response to the Skills Gap 

      Cristy, Joshua Kyle (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      PODs & MODs focuses on vocational trades schools, design build programs, entrepreuneurial maker space startups, modular shipping container builders and the manufacturing industry to investigate the issues companies are ...

    • The Synthesis of Balance: Conscious Design Based on the Lived Experience 

      Aberle, Kaitlyn (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      Architecture become harmonious when it is experienced as a triad of the lived reality, the perceived experience, and the impact it has on the memory of the soul. The physical reality of the built environment can highly ...

    • Act for Children: Formative Environments 

      Jarrett, Kelsey (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      Can Architecture serve as an education aid in early childhood development? Can we as designers help children learn while provoking discovery and creative thinking? How can we as designers better prepare our nation's youngest ...

    • Theodore Hamm's Rebrew 

      Stephenson, Kenneth (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      A brewery that produced beer for roughly 130 years employing thousands of workers from the area has been sitting vacant for 17 years slowing crumbling from lack of upkeep. With the constant threat of being razed and losing ...

    • Interplanetary Habitation: Designing for Life on Mars 

      Schoeneck, Landon (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      How can architecture adapt the complex engineering systems of a Mars colony to sustainable human life? Migration and travel has evolved from the dawn of humanity to the automotive and flight industries of current times. ...

    • Refractive Architecture: A Paradigm Shift through Education 

      Plasencia, Matthew (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      A place of no place, void of connection or meaning. We are moving ever more rapidly into a utopian society. A society of automatons, operating as machines. Aspects of our world today have been reduced and categorized to a ...

    • Crafting Community through Architecture 

      Theisen, Matthew (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      This project intends to allow the public to have easy access to various resources and spaces within which to practice art, material hobbies, music, or simply gathering in a creative environment. This intent will be fulfilled ...

    • Enhanced Assisted Living: An Architectural Strategy to Reduce the Negative Effects for Society Caused by Aging Population 

      Xing, Mengke (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      Due to the emergence of large numbers of elderly people as the Baby Boomer generation ages and the life span extended, an aging population has become a serious issue for modern society with far-reaching economic and ...

    • Northstar Rail Terminus 

      Nystrom, Mitchel (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      The purpose of this thesis is to examine the ways that a commuter rail development in Downtown St. Cloud can create a scene of identity and purpose that it currently lacks. [Throughout] this thesis I will explore how train ...

    • Breach: Building Integrated Flood Protection, Addressing the Inadequate Response to the Flood of 1997 by the City of Grand Forks 

      Naastad, Tanner (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      In response to The Flood of 1997, the city of Grand Forks, ND constructed a flood wall along the river. It protected the citizens from the seasonal floods but it was an inadequate solution. It created a physical, visual, ...

    • Within and Without: St. Paul Museum of Architecture 

      Abrahamsen, Mitchell (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      This thesis project revolves around how museums influence our perception of objects and ideas. Through research on museum design and architectural theory, I have come to understand the idea of framing and its importance ...

    • The Architecture of Happiness 

      Larson, Morgan (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      According to Architect John Lautner, the purpose of architecture is to “improve human life. Create timeless, free, joyous spaces for all activities in life” (Lautner, n.d.). His goal for this statement was to push architecture ...

    • Theater of Community: Enabling a Vibrant and Interconnected Community through Careful Preservation of an Architectural Monument 

      Saddler, Nick (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      In his book The Creative City, urbanist Charles Landry speaks at length about hard and soft infrastructure in cities. Hard infrastructure referring to the built environment and the functions that support it and soft ...

    • Here in the City: Architecture of Lost Spaces 

      Marihart, Samantha (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      Can lost space be revitalized to promote the culture of the city? In every city lost space resides. These are slivers and awkward portions of space where no traditional use works. Often found in between buildings, and under ...

    • Overcoming Barriers: Creating Physical, Social, and Economic Access through Modular Design as Activism 

      Biesterveld, Sarah (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      10% of the population has difficulty using stairs; most due to a wheelchair, cane, crutches, or walker. That is about 24,000 people in the Fargo-Moorhead area alone. In today’s built environment there are exceptions within ...

    • Bridge: A Library as Interconnection for Culture and Function 

      Vang, Shelley (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      My thesis is focused on creating an opportunity for the exchange and connection between individuals, cultures, communities, and knowledge we gain from one another. Located in the Fargo-Moorhead area, the two cities have a ...