Architecture Theses: Recent submissions
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Immigrant Entrepreneurial Development Center
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Can architecture redefine the American Dream by assisting immigrants to establish themselves in a community? This question stemmed from various ideas pertaining to architectural movements and their impacts on the built ... -
Design by Nature - A Montessori School
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This thesis examines the ability of designers to use nature as an inspiration in their design process, often referred to as biomimicry. The final design for this Montessori school of 180 students in Winnipeg, Manitoba will ... -
Elements of the Office Workspace
(North Dakota State University, 2010)When examining office buildings in the world today, it is proper to look deeper at the correlation between productivity and the environments in which people work. In analyzing the office spaces, studies have shown that ... -
Technology Past and Present: An Exploration In Agricultural Archaeology
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This book examines the history of technology specific to the area of agriculture. Technology exists as a product of culture, and can therefore be studied through the field of anthropology, even more specifically archaeology. ... -
Designing Efficiently: A Focus on the User
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Our built environment is plagued by ineffective design. Often we find we have lost sight of the purpose of our built environment as our needs and tasks have changed drastically over time. A fresh analysis of our needs and ... -
Sustainability of Time
(North Dakota State University, 2010)The Government is building a storage facility at Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert, which is where the dormitory complex would need to be as well. This is as structure that will have a program and life span of at least ... -
Arts in Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2010)The fine arts can be viewed as divine marker to a cultural identity. As a non-essential activity to the survival of man, arts are infused with all of the free thought of the contemporary. More specifically, theatre is a ... -
Neurotic: Mind, Body, Soul, Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This project is meant to embrace and design for our different minds. The idea is to create a place where we can be ourselves and retreat to a state of mind that puts our emotions or neuroses at ease. People seek places ... -
Sustaining Rural Communities: The Wave
(North Dakota State University, 2010)For the survival of rural communities and their citizens, a strong sense of place, vital resources, focused leadership, and commitment are critical. What are the underlying characteristics that sustain and help in a ... -
Designing for the Senses
(North Dakota State University, 2010)The typology for this project will be a school for the blind. The blind and visually handicapped have the right to be able to navigate effortlessly through the built environment. It is our job as designers to ensure the ... -
Hidden Lake Health & Wellness Retreat
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This thesis provides some answers to the question, does a design have the ability to promote health and wellness in our personal choices about the way we live? A healthy way of life is a personal choice determined by the ... -
Ski Center Fargo
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This thesis delivers, in an attempt to answer questions, how the solid waste may be affected by communities. The subject of this attempt is a local community waste field of Fargo, ND. The theoretical Premise / Unifying ... -
Giving New Life
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Abstract- This thesis project is the exploration of how technology may serve to reveal architectural opportunities within a damaged landscape. There are many places around the planet which have been used and then left ... -
Disassemblable Architecture for Rural Communities
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Title: Disassemblable architecture for rural communities Introduction: Our society today has been experiencing a mass migration within its own borders. People are leaving the economically stale rural communities for ... -
Solid Rock Physical Rehabilitation Center
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This thesis explores some possible answers to the question, “What is the correlation between physical, social, and emotional attributes?” The typology examined for this thesis is a physical rehabilitation facility. People’s ... -
Structured Living
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Architecture and its infrastructure act as a mediating tool defining the world around us by structuring experience. This thesis will define the consequence of building and how designers structure experience by opening and ... -
A Museum of Architectural Elements
(North Dakota State University, 2010)The theoretical premise of this thesis is “Architects communicate through the innovation, adaption and organization of elements like: structure, materials, motifs, signs, symbols and form with a society whose members are ... -
Hidatsa Ma-giguts-gi Adish (Hidatsa Learning Lodge) Language and Performance Renewal Center for Three Affiliated Tribes
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Abstract/Executive Summary: Interest is increasing among the “Seventh Generation” of Three Affiliated Tribes on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota, seeking out elders who are still fluent speakers of the Hidatsa ... -
Architecture and biophilia: Creating spaces that promote a positive affiliation with nature and the living world
(North Dakota State University, 2003)The outdoors and its natural elements have become a growing interest to me in the last couple of years – especially the reasons why people are attracted to them. I believe one of the major reasons is to escape everyday ...