Architecture Theses: Recent submissions
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Children of the Neon Mirage: Proximity, Duration and Homunculi Space
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis seeks to investigate the relationship of the philosophical ideas of proximity and duration as they relate to architectural expression and representation. In design, linguistic and visual expression and their ... -
Urban Resurrection
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Communities are becoming increasingly aware that current trends of expansive growth are not sustainable. Infill development, or the development of vacant or under-utilized sites within urban areas, can be an alternative ... -
Adaptable Spaces for Changing Paces : Design for Demographic Shifts
(North Dakota State University, 2011)The built environment is currently designed with (only) the present demographic profile in mind. Designing in this manner fails to prepare for changes in demographic profiles and creates an obstacle for users when the ... -
Urban Identity : Frogtown Finds Itself
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Our cities are too often disconnected. They are disconnected in the sense of a failure to relate neighborhoods and districts to each other. This is especially true for cities which lack effective public transportation. ... -
Nature of Hospitality
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis searches to provide an answer to the question: how is hospitality expressed in architectural terms and how does this affect our perception of space? The Building Typology for analysis of the problem is a ... -
Mississippi River Adventure
(North Dakota State University, 2011)My project will provide a means of adventure, discovery, and heightened awareness of the cultural, historical, and physical nature of the Mississippi River and surrounding area. The typology will be a “watercraft and ... -
body soul inHABIT
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis investigates the human body and its proportions in relation to the comfort and security experienced within a space. This thesis also takes a deeper analytical look at how the treatment of our own bodies has ... -
Sensory Architecture : Redefining How One Interprets Space
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This design thesis will address the question: how do combinations of our senses influence the way we interact with our surrounding built environment? The typology chosen to evaluate this question is an addition to an ... -
Systems for Social Change
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Through the design of low-income housing in Fargo, North Dakota, this thesis will reevaluate the relationship between market forces and architecture, seeking to develop a new system for housing the low-income sector and ... -
Dwelling up|on the Dock
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis project will explore the aspects of dwellings that can contribute to making the floor plan more efficient through flexibility and adaptation to the users and environment. -
Architectural Asset Development
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis attempts to elucidate the connection between architecture and how well students perform academically and socially based on how much pleasure they attain from the architecture of their high school campus. The ... -
Events Machine
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis explores the relation between narrative and (im)material: investigating traditional means of making architectural media while testing and generating representation with film (narrative) in the pursuit of a ... -
Building Within Our Bounds
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This graduate thesis explores where waste (or unutilized material) is being produced in the design methodology of a mixed-use building in Fargo, ND. There is waste produced in the construction process that is inevitable, ... -
Adaptable Architecture : architecture that changes through time
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Just as living things grow and adapt, so should the things we create. In this juxtaposition lays the ability to propel our creations into a cyclical lifestyle of rebirth through functionality. Spatial experiences are ... -
Test of Time
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis is a study of how the use of recycled materials can express the passage of time within a society or culture. The building typology for the execution of this idea is a historical museum. The Theoretical ... -
subURBAN : redefining urban residential
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Suburbia is being called home to an increasing number of people living in Western societies. In the United States, more people live in the suburbs than the cities they surround, and 75% of all new construction is taking ... -
Relevant Antiquity : Catalyzing Tourism with Architectural Tradition
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis explores the question of how local architectural traditions affect tourism. The typology for the exploration of this problem is a convention center/hotel in a building complex comprised of adaptive re-use and ... -
Contrasting History
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This graduate thesis examines the inherent meaning in a constructed building and using that to find a new purpose for that building that embraces its style, age, and purpose. Through this connection with history, the ... -
Feeding Change from the Ground Up
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This project aims to answer the question, through the utilization of the appropriate learning environment, can children learn how to improve the nutritional health of themselves and their families? The solution will be ... -
Urban Paths
(North Dakota State University, 2011)The typology for this thesis project will be a hybrid transit center. Public awareness on the effects that vehicles and buildings have on the environment is a large component to this project. This will be done through a ...