Architecture Theses: Recent submissions
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Ensemble : The Art of Inspiration
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis will speak to the integration of the performing arts and visual arts and architecture. Architecture should inevitably be integral with the contents within. Consequently the content within the structure ... -
TOWARD INTEGRATION : Collaborative Architecture and Design Methods
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis investigates the current delivery methods architects use to create buildings in relation to the access to and quality of them. It pays special attention to investigating new delivery methods, which enable a ... -
Sensitive Significance
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis studies the question of how the quality of the built environment affects all aspects of well-being in its users. The topic will be explored through mixed method research with an emphasis on the relationships ... -
Ritual : Enhancing the Modern Athlete
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This project illustrates how ritual influences the construction, function, and experience of architecture. Ritual is essential in our everyday life and it is vital to that architecture contributes to ritual. This project ... -
Live Active : An Architectural Response to Rehabilitation
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis researches and examines the way we respond to our environment, both natural and built. According to Newtonian physics, for every action there is an equal or opposite reaction. Default stairs, walls, windows, ... -
Ephemeral Population : Housing for a Transient Workforce
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Western North Dakota is currently experiencing a tremendous oil boom which is attracting people from all over the country because of the prospects of money, work, and a better way of life. Communities are desperately trying ... -
Kinetic Response
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis examines how a shelter could serve as a vehicle for renewal and investigates the relationship of poverty and progress. The shelter could foster short-term relief as an aid for long-term recovery following natural ... -
Reusing Structure
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis attempts to understand how built structures can evolve over time through use and reuse. It looks at how reusing a space is possible by taking a warehouse structure and reusing it for the new purpose of living ... -
Rebuilding the Human Experience
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis will create a natural food co-op in a town devastated by natural disaster. The design of this building will utilize a site with an existing structural failure in Greensburg, Kansas, left behind after the ... -
Ecological Architecture : Reconnecting Environments
(North Dakota State University, 2011)The typology for this facility derived from the problem concerning the separation of environments. The design will incorporate an Ecological Education and Research Center for Sustainable Development (EERCSD) within the ... -
Virtual World of Information
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Currently, there is a disconnect between the digitization of the world and modern building design. This project attempts to answer the question, “how does ever-changing technology, and the culture that follows it influence ... -
Preventative Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis examines and researches a preventative approach toward the present mental healthcare practice. The current mental healthcare system focuses on a curative instead of a preventative approach. This current treatment ... -
Recycling the Oil Boom
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis provides some answers to the question, how can a small community sustainably adapt to a localized oil boom? The typology for this examination to the problem is a recycling center. The theoretical premise/unifying ... -
Healing Dance
(North Dakota State University, 2010)How can cultivation through design become the next step forward in medicine and the arts by creating a homogeneous mixture between dance and physical therapy? The typology for this exploration is therapy through a performing ... -
Adaptive Architecture: Design for a Declining Global Population
(North Dakota State University, 2010)In the face of a declining human population, our ability to plan for and adapt to future circumstances will be essential if we, as a global community, are to not only preserve our built environment, but also ensure its ... -
Resilient by Nature - Restoring Ecology through Urban Ecotourism
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This thesis investigates how the Ecotourism Movement can restore the natural environment. The typology in this study is an urban, ecology complex including a museum, restaurant/bar, flexible community space, and outdoor ... -
Haven for the Dead
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This thesis will study the funerary traditions of the Iron Range people of Minnesota, and the funerary architecture of their western ancestors. The project design is a cemetery with supporting structures. It will also ... -
Concerning the Masked in Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2010)The thesis responds to the statement that queries the role of the designer and asks whether or not one can "unmask" that which has been covered up by our tendencies in the way we live. The typology being a master-builder ... -
Education Instilling a Brighter Future: Design of Green Strategies Beyond Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2010)The Project Typology is a 25,000 Sq. Ft. Educational Activity Center providing additional before & after school resources as well as new educational programming throughout the day for elementary age children in the Fargo ... -
Transportation And Architecture: Who Influences Who
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This thesis provides some answers to the question: how do the advances of technology in the transportation infrastructure predestine how one designs the built environment? The Typology for the examination of this problem ...