Architecture Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Architecture and Eros : the hunt for fulfillment 

      Pauly, Shawn (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      This project is titled “Architecture and Eros: the hunt for fulfillment.” It observes how Architecture may work to address our inherent human desire for completeness. The project proposes a design for a hunting lodge, ...

    • Eightfold architecture 

      Meiers, Karissa (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      This thesis investigates the question of how Eightfold Architecture can help inspire us to save existing abandoned buildings, and with this bring an enlightened functionality to transitional areas of our cities. The concept ...

    • Bridging the gap - sustainability through technê 

      Burley, Holly (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      This thesis explores the relationship between experiential and scientific approaches to sustainability and the architectural approaches to the hot-button issue. It will provide an example of how an environment can encourage ...

    • Cinematic perception : exploring relationships between film and architecture 

      Saarela, Erin (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      The basis of this thesis project stems from exploring relationships between film and architecture by examining the question: “Can the cinematic experience be enhanced by a socially focused and interactive built environment?” ...

    • Courage campus - a place of healing and re-discovery 

      Avard, Matthew (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      This thesis will help develop a place where armed force members can begin to reconnect back to society. Architecture will be used to create a safe haven for service members andfamilies who have been affected by horrifying ...

    • gAstronomic Innovation : a new methodology for nutrition education 

      Muckenhirn, Joshua (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      The title of the thesis is gAstronomic Innovation: A New Methodology for Nutrition Education. The question being investigated is, how can architecture be used as a tool to ultimately improve society’s overall health and ...

    • Intramural cycling environment : Bassett Creek Pedal Club 

      Cotcamp, Casey (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Understanding a specific need of the public is very important when looking at how a building can promote a healthy lifestyle, while saving energy and bringing a community closer together. Minneapolis, Minnesota, along with ...

    • Permeable education 

      Becker, Catherine (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      This thesis, Permeable Education, provides insight into the impact that permeable architecture has on the culture in a community when applied in educational spaces. The typology, a 230,000 square foot Center for Learning ...

    • Urban advocate : Fargo City Hall renovation and addition 

      Fremstad, Matthew (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      This thesis, Urban advocate, presents a proposed addition and renovation to Fargo’s current city hall. In Fargo, North Dakota, population growth has forced city leaders to consider their options on the undersized city hall. ...

    • Creating for creativity 

      Brackel, Alicia (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      This thesis, Creating for Creativity, examines the impact an experience of an environment has on its inhabitant’s creativity. The typology of this project is a 76,000 square foot art museum and creativity center located ...

    • City of Kids - design kindergarten 

      Zhang, Wenyi (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      This thesis project, City of Kids, examines the question that how can architectural elements optimize the traditional method of early childhood development. This thesis proposal primarily focuses on the impacts of spatial ...

    • City Provident 

      Martz, Steven (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      This thesis models a system of movement. Any space containing obstacles and needing to be traversed offers resistance to whom or whatever may be trying to navigate it. This resistance transfers directly to inefficiencies ...

    • Impactful phenomenologies : Minnesota marching arts 

      Weiss, Matthew (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      An emerging field of research in Architectural discourse, Architectural Phenomenology can be represented as the perception of space through the five senses. For some of the world’s most established practitioners and ...

    • Thunderbird Centre Resort: Transforming a Legacy of Olympic burden 

      Froese, Dustin (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      In the wake of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, specialized sporting facilities such as the Whistler Sliding Center have become unused mementos that are expensive to maintain and are a burden to the local ...

    • Development of the Youth 

      Bickel, Jeremy (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis presents research on the benefits well designed youth centers can have on children as they grow into adulthood. The typology of this project is a center for the study of children maturation. The site is in ...

    • Community Design Build 

      Pauley, Dani (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis provides some answers to the question, how might a restorative community-based residential design build center/curriculum be created where the structure itself resonates with the embedded values of such an ...

    • Vista Rehabilitation 

      Smith, Matthew (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Vista Rehabilitation is a thesis project that explores the possibilities and affects that design, and its relation to nature, has on healing and the overall health of the inhabitants of a structure. In times of sickness ...

    • Compressed Agriculture Initiative 

      Homic, Thomas (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Increasingly within urban population growth there is a greater demand on the agricultural resources needed to keep these populations properly fed. As these stresses on the agricultural space and supply chain increase, ...

    • Steam Baths 

      Johnson, Jeremiah (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Today, architecture constitutes the greatest range of the built environment; yet our buildings are causing physiological and mental stress to the public. If architecture is designed intuitively by engaging the public’s ...

    • Sustainable Connections: A Comprehensive Design of a Energy-Efficient Convention Center 

      Kautzman, Alexis (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Sustainable Connections: A Comprehensive Design of a Energy-Efficient Convention Center is a design thesis focused on the issue how can adaptive sustainable methods and technologies be applied to a convention center to ...