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Item Revisiting Residential Design Through Vertical Farming(North Dakota State University, 2014) Vollema, JetseThis thesis is an investigation of the question, as a city’s population continues to rise, how can residential design assist in meeting the increased demand for food, water, energy and shelter? The typologies for the investigation of this problem are a sustainable residential complex and urban agricultural facilities. The site for this investigation is Fargo, ND. The Unifying Idea is that by combining sustainable residential design and on site agricultural practices, residential design could increase the awareness within cities which are experiencing rapid population growth to the issue of successfully meeting the rise in energy and shelter demands. The Project Justification is that sustainable residential design combined with urban agriculture is a vital component in ensuring the continuity of our species’ growth and survival.Item Scientific discovery + Designing the science museum of the future(North Dakota State University, 2015) Bukowski, DennisThis thesis demonstrated the connection between how children and adults learn about science, as well as the connection between science and technology in modern building design. By looking at the scientific advancements of buildings, the building itself becomes a tool for teaching, giving visitors a hands on experience of the connection between science and everyday life. This will help visitors learn about scientific strategies and give them a better understanding of the environment in which they live. Science is something that has an effect on everyone in the world; from growing food, producing electricity, to living a healthy lifestyle. Everything is connected by some type of scientific advancement or discovery.Item Sustainable Convenience(North Dakota State University, 2020) Harter, JessicaGlobally, society is on the cusp of substantial environmental changes. These changes start with insight into the current state of the environment, mindset changes that need to be made, then to the necessary lifestyle changes. Accordingly, this research began with asking why communities haven’t been able to start making these changes, questioning what is it that is holding them back? Convenience. Communities have drilled in the concept of “convenience for the consumer” whereas now, there’s a dire need to switch to “convenience for the environment”. The question then becomes: What is it about convenience that is holding people back from these changes, and how can architecture jump-start a community to become more conscious about everyday environmental impacts? The easiest, or in this context, the most convenient place to start changes are at the grocery store, where the bulk of consumerism happens. The most convenient change for the environment is producing less waste and focusing on a plant-based diet. These combined, have the possibility of creating convenience in a society for both the consumer and the environment. The research starts with gathering numerous case studies exhibiting the use of zero-waste shopping, then looks into the possibility of creating winterized greenhouses in accordance to the harsh North Dakotan winters.Item Adaptive Architectural Value Engineering: A Study of Influencing Factors(North Dakota State University, 2018) Meyer, ChristopherA study to define value, and define it as a critical variable in domestic residential design and construction, by the use of evaluation of adaptive symbolic models using designer controlled endogenous and external exogenous variables to define a field of optimal solutions. An application of existing and derived methods, and tools, on designer defined preferential models of domestic architecture.Item Supportive Learning: Live, Grow(North Dakota State University, 2013) Hausladen, VirginiaThis thesis is an investigation into how design can facilitate and enhance learning for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders. By designing for groups of people with very specific needs, we learn how architecture can adequately provide for the more general population. In doing so, the research brings into question how best we can educate children with special needs and how design can adapt to provide for the changing needs of students today . Located on the Red River in Fargo, North Dakota, the development of a specialized school for children with ASD allows architecture to become a tool in and of itself for learning and personal growth.Item The Shoppes on Main: Developing a Sense of Place(North Dakota State University, 2012) Osten, AlishaThis thesis researches and investigates the effect architectural space brings to a sense of place within an urban environment. Located on Main Avenue and 18th Street in Fargo, The Shoppes on Main: Developing a Sense of Place is a 90,508 sq. ft. mixed use building that the Fargo/Moorhead area community needs and will get use out of. “Cities are becoming meaningless places beyond their citizens’ grasp. We no longer know the origins of the world around us. We rarely know where the materials and products come from, who owns what, who is behind what, what was intended. We live in cities where things happen without warning and without our participation. It is an alien world for most people. It is little surprise that most withdraw from community involvement to enjoy their own private and limited worlds.” (Jacobs & Appleyard, 1987) The idea that an urban environment’s sense of place is influenced by architectural space is cause for deeper consideration; especially in light of particular cities and developments going through stages of growth and change. Through gathering both qualitative and quantitative information and analyzing it, this project’s aim is to find out if there is a way to keep up with rapidly changing technology, building construction, and architectural styles, and still give a thriving city its sense of place in its newest architecture? Can we avoid placelessness by implementing certain architecture within its respective place?Item The Gathering Garden: Bringing Warmth to Fargo's Frigid Winters(North Dakota State University, 2019) Marsh, RachelFargo’s rapidly improving downtown community life has one large, seven-month-long problem: winter. During the frigid winter, the public life of Fargo’s downtown comes to a halt. Thus, this research began with the goal of designing an ideal indoor public space for Fargo’s winters. To understand the best design for the proposed public space, a broader question is posed: How can a space’s design promote positive third-place activities within an urban, indoor, Midwestern context? The third-place concept was first proposed by Ray Oldenburg’s text The Great Good Place (1989) and is the foundation of this research. Oldenburg defines the term “Third Place” as an informal space which support relationships among community members. The research begins with compiling case studies of spaces which host third-place activities and identifying re-occurring patterns of user behavior and architectural design. The research cumulates in the final design of an elevated interior garden, located directly above stores in Downtown Fargo, to demonstrate how a space’s architecture can encourage third place activities.Item Ecological Architecture : Reconnecting Environments(North Dakota State University, 2011) Blume, AnthonyThe 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 context of the rural-urban fringe. Designing multi-purpose spaces is vital to programmatically accommodate to Fargo’s changing seasons. The EERCSD will begin to evaporate the dividing boundaries of the built and natural environment by employing ecological design as a foundation for the design process. Providing a place to educate the public while experiencing both the natural and built environments can lead to a better understanding of the areas ecology.Item Adaptability and Design(North Dakota State University, 2014) Buck, NicholasThis thesis project, Adaptability and Design, investigates the following question, how can design be adaptable with society’s technological growth within an educational facility? This proposal’s main emphasis is to challenge the integration of architecture and the ever changing technology of the future. The type of building selected for this project will be University Multipurpose Building in Fargo, North Dakota containting 18,000 sqft. Occupants will find their learning experience to be more efficient. The need for this project comes from the rate in which technology is advancing and the human drive to keep up.Item TOWARD INTEGRATION : Collaborative Architecture and Design Methods(North Dakota State University, 2011) Mathern, ZacharyThis 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 wider range of clients to access design services and dwell within quality built environments.