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Item Manufacturing: A New Way(North Dakota State University, 2012) Wullschleger, ScottThis thesis project, titled Manufacturing: a new way, will examine manufacturing buildings, and the working conditions that exist there. The typology will be a brewery with a area of 60,000 square feet. The guiding idea is that through careful design, manufacturing buildings can be made safer, more productive, and more enjoyable to inhabit. The site is in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a lot at the corner of North 3rd Street and 7th Avenue North, right in the heart of the warehouse district. The manufacturing industry has been held to a minimal standard for many years. Through thoughtful design decisions, this project will help to redefine a new standard that will show good design can create an improved work environment that allows for increased productivity and a reduction of stress.Item Dwelling in Nomadic Architecture: Transitional Housing for the Suddenly and Chronically Homeless(North Dakota State University, 2016) Miller, NathanThe goal of this thesis project is to create a welcoming and respectful space to house, educate, and rehabilitate the chronic homeless population in the Minneapolis area. The challenge of this premise is to provide transitional housing that separates itself from the stereotypical institutional stigma many facilities face. This will be done by studying the difference between smooth and striated places as referenced by Deleuze and Guitarri, nomadic tendencies and architecture, and case studies demonstrating different responses to homelessness. There is a growing need for solutions addressing homelessness, particularly the significant rise of new age groups such as seniors, two-parent families, and teenagers under the age of eighteen. The number of homeless persons with mental illness is also on the rise. The challenge will be to match different age groups or living situations with their preferred type of space. This will require the ability to design spaces that are flexible and supportive of the nomadic tendencies many of the chronically homeless are accustom to. It will also require the ability to design efficient, institutional spaces that act as more of a system to elevate people out of homelessness.Item Urban Stadia: Integrating Stadium Design with Mixed-Use Building Tactics to Rejuvenate an Urban Neighborhood(North Dakota State University, 2016) Borgen, MitchellSporting stadiums impact the socio-economic capabilities in all of the areas in which they exist. Some have a good impact, they are able to fully integrate into the urban environment and benefit the area through areas such as economics, walkability, transportation, etc. But there are many that do not accomplish this. They essentially become enormous concrete structures that are surrounded by thousands of asphalt-laden parking spaces and they only end up serving the community on the days in which the sporting team plays, usually once or twice a week. What if the same tactics we are using to rejuvenate our downtown areas can serve a bigger part in getting one of the most expensive typologies in this world back on track? With this thesis, I look to delve into just what type of impact a stadium will have on an urban environment, when combined with mixed-use building tactics.Item Live Mpls(North Dakota State University, 2020) Ormsby, AlexanderToday we have the luxury of hindsight; this allows for the truth of past actions to reveal itself to us. We can look back on our shared human history and recognize the repercussions of certain actions, and it is with this lens humanity must view the past; without it, true progress is not possible. The past is, in fact, the key component in inspiring the future. As the famous George Santayana quote goes, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” While this quote has been twisted thousands of times over to defend a vast array of arguments, as designers we still have much to learn from it. We must take it upon ourselves to dissect the past—to break it down into its individual components. It is only once these unique parts are broken down into their fundamentals that their true purpose, their true essence, is revealed to us. Once this essence is discovered it is then possible to re-contextualize the fragments of old into a design of new. It is this transformation of technology from the past into the new context of the present that allows for a re-imagining of the world on a natural and cultural level.Item Saudade - rethinking deathcare(North Dakota State University, 2015) Schrader, AlexThis thesis explores the manner in which architecture can more sympathetically respond to people in a time of loss and grievance. Through adaptively repurposing a historic structure in Minneapolis, MN, a crematory and funeral home can show an alternative to the current deathcare industry. This alternative is more environmentally sustainable by providing alternatives to harmful cremation and embalming processes, emotionally responsive by creating spaces that encourage the grieving process, and user-focused by providing flexible and innovative spaces which allow for many types of ceremonies.Item Aeronautical destinations(North Dakota State University, 2014) Rathbone, BrettOne can arrive at as many as three or more airports on the way to their destination with two layovers during the trip, KFAR to KMSP to KSLC to KPSP for example. How can an airport design be more than just a vehicle for aviation, but serve as a desirable location to be, rather than just one more step along the path. It can have such a lack of circumstance that you only remember menial inconveniences, rather than a positive experience. With effort, can an airport be made to evoke a similar set of circumstance as a national landmark when seeing it? Perhaps to a select few, but the airport could have a grand sense of arrival instead of a mere step along the path. Economic expansion would benefit the expansion of existing infrastructure to be able to better support the local business hub that is the Twin Cities. Arrive sooner, forget the details along the way. Get in, get out, don’t care about surroundings. These are phrases that could be used in a critical manner to describe some airports. Statements that should not be used. Ellis Island and Angel Island had grand senses of arrival. However these are on a different scale from an airport but the sense of arrival from an airport should be carried over to the most popular form of overseas travel.Item Hmong Funeral Rites and The Space Between(North Dakota State University, 2016) Vang, HueThe sacred has always been a part of human life from the beginning of time. Religion and faith throughout the timeline has driven multiple major revolutions. They have answered questions that could not be answered, but now in this modern age, the need of the sacred seem to be diminishing with the discoveries of science and progress. The modern age may be calling for a new sacred, a sacred that is not related to religion and faith but a sense of understanding one’s self. The deeper calling of the question we ask ourselves that may never be answered by science, the afterlife. Thus every culture has come to deal with it their own individual way. When an individual passes we perform the appropriate rituals to mourn, to commemorate, and sometimes to celebrate their transcendence beyond our world. As Hans-Georg Gadamer says “We could perhaps even say that this experience initiated the process of our becoming human. As far back as human memory extends we can recognize as an undisputed characteristic of human beings that they perform some kind of funeral rites.” in his book The Enigma of Health. As Jon Cannon from The Secret Language of Sacred Spaces states “The architecture might be intended to replicate the features of the sacred landscape in which it is set, or to represent a culture’s deepest ideas about the ordered nature of the cosmos and humankind’s place within it, from earthly life to the ultimate mystery of what lies beyond mortal death.” Architecture in many senses has provided the space for these rituals, or maybe the other way around. These spaces has provide the opportunity for architecture. But we can’t disagree that where there are these rituals there is architecture. In the past these spaces has always emitted a sense of holiness and transcendence. In the present time, in the Hmong community, these spaces have become dull and plain. It does nothing in educating the young and providing an aesthetic for such rituals. This thesis provides a sublime sacred space to educate and enlighten the younger and present Hmong generation. The analysis of precedent spaces will be used to engrain elements and concepts into the design. The study of people and such spaces will help us understand why these spaces are diminishing. The need to embrace one’s roots and recognize one’s descendants may be the answer to transcending one’s self.Item Gateway Centre - Minneapolis, Minnesota(North Dakota State University, 1978) Olschlager, Gordon A.Item Enviro-Braille: A Transcribed Language of Architectural Elements(North Dakota State University, 2020) Cragoe, LauraArchitecture has an immense effect on our perception of reality. The way one gains understanding of their surroundings depends heavily on stimulation of senses. The pitfall of designers is the consciousness paid to occupants who have an impaired sense of sight or blindness. It is the architect’s responsibility to make design decisions that cultivate environments that everyone can thrive in. Information for this research will be gathered by analyzing perception as it relates to the visually impaired and comparing the principles of language and semiotics to gain an understanding of how architecture is used as a tool of communication. From this information, an indication of architectural elements that should be used to communicate to the visually impaired will be made. The goal of this research to produce a framework of elements that can be applied to any typology.Item Sustainable Engagement(North Dakota State University, 2015) Crook, SarahThis thesis is my solution to how architecture can influence individuals to learn and live in a sustainable environment that excites its users. I have redefined sustainability as, “a social change involving individuals, businesses and government law to support a higher standard of ethical consumerism and healthful choices.” My thesis design is an educational facility that teaches with its architecture as well as exhibits, classes and workshops. Sustainable architecture increases awareness of healthy choices while advertising positive results.