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Item New Old Stock(North Dakota State University, 2012) Lippert, NicholasThis project, Detroit’s New Workforce: A Detroit Renewable Energy Workforce Training Center, examines how and where the sense of place exists within a construction. From that conclusion, it will investigate how sense of place lives within a new environment. The proposed 29,000 square foot commercial building in downtown Detroit sits on the site of a recently demolished building. The new construction will continue the previous sense of place to make the it more significant culturally.Item The Psyche of a Building: An Exploration of how Buildings Relate to the Human Psyche Through a Renovated Farmstead(North Dakota State University, 2020) Kingston, VeronicaFarmsteads have been steady reminders of how this country got its start. Hard work, family, faith, and community were all aspects of farm life. Each home was built with the help of neighbors, children learned how to do chores early in life, people respected the land and knew how important it was to the survival of the family. Now as people move into the cities for the comforts of modern day living the old farmsteads are falling into disrepair or torn down for land development. The cost of repairing the old buildings seems like a daunting task, one that many people deem unimportant. What are we losing with this line of thinking? Buildings not only have their own psyche; they also contribute to ours. How we interact and what happens within a building adds to our emotions. Think of your favorite place to be, is it big or small? Spacious or intimate? Dark or light? How did you feel in that space? Attics, basements, corners, all of these are connected to our consciousness. This project explores these situations through the texts of Gaston Bachelard and Anne Bordeleau, while situating these inspirations within the renovations of a farmhouse and surround structure in the rural Mid-West.Item Boecraft Continuum(North Dakota State University, 2022) Kaesmeyer, JaredWhat is tradition? Careening 100 miles per hour across a thin shelf of ice, compelled solely by a precise manipulation of the wind atop razor sharp steel blades? This sounds more like a death wish than tradition. Yet building and sailing a wooden ice boat is an art that has been passed down for 300 years. It is a composition of elegance, engineering, and craftsmanship, yet still is on a trajectory to extinction. In a high-speed era of innovation, where does this tradition find its place? Lake Geneva, Wisconsin is known as the Ice Boat Capital of the World. Geneva Lake is surrounded by a tourist town and is a summer home for many of the Midwest’s wealthiest individuals. What exists here is a story and tradition of ice boating that is completely unique. This thesis seeks to tell this story through a new destination at the heart of downtown, bringing to light what is unknown to many. Skeeter Yacht Club is a portal of history, a facility of education, and an establishment dedicated to bringing all people to the art of building and sailing these wooden masterpieces.Item Revolution(North Dakota State University, 2021) Bumby, SpencerHow can we design stadiums to better serve their communities: visually, physically, and financially? In the last decade, there has been a trend in the United States to design and build soccer-specific stadiums for Major League Soccer (MLS) teams. While most teams now have a soccer-specific stadium, there are few teams who have not yet followed on the trend due to no immediate desire to move to a new venue. Like most stadiums and arenas, the general public does not view the public funding of them in a favorable manner. This is due to their increasing costs and lack of return of investment for their cities. Even when publicly funded on the hands of the tourists, many argue that the extra revenue should be invested in the community instead of the sporting venues. One of the more recent trends within stadium design has been to create large entertainment districts surrounding the stadiums. We have seen this be very successful for football stadiums and baseball parks, leading to new developments in cities that see high daily usage. Even though the surrounding context has significant usage, the stadium anchoring this neighborhood is still unused most of the year. The stadiums are also generally locked and closed off on the many days that they aren’t being used. To create a resolution to this issue stadiums should be designed with mixed uses as a priority to generate year-round revenue and become more connected to their cities.Item The Genesis Project : exploring the convergence of architecture, music, & life(North Dakota State University, 2015) Halvorson, TimothyMusic is an innate human quality that provokes physical, mental, and spiritual responses both consciously and subconsciously, and consequently, has the capacity to change the environment. Architecture can be designed as a vehicle for creating acoustically rich environments and musical opportunities that are desirable for guests and promote social exchange and healing. Architecture can be specifically designed to acoustically tune and direct sound in particular fashions that promote social, physiological, and cultural well being. The Performing Arts & Healing Center challenges conventional perceptions of what “instrument” and “music” are by creating spaces that can be healing and invigorating through the embodied composition of select materials,shapes, and landscaping. The symphony of nature. Further, a variety of interactive musical mediums encourage guests to tangibly engage with music rather than simply stand as observers. The result is a constant stream of activity transforming the Center into an instrument for positive cultural change. Title: The Genesis Project: Exploring the Convergence of Architecture, Music, & Life Typology: Performing Arts & Healing Center Site: Rochester, MN USA. Project Size: 350,000 Square Feet.Item Adaptive Thinking(North Dakota State University, 2023) Trosen, TannerThe LEED Green Building Rating System was founded in 1993 and officially launched in 1998. Since then LEED’s goal has been to certify buildings that save money, improve efficiency, lower carbon emissions and create healthier places for people. LEED has done a very good job at producing the former. LEED certified buildings are very environmentally friendly, efficient, and save money day to day. Unfortunately when it comes to healthier places for people, the ball gets dropped. The WELL Building Standard bridges this gap. WELL buildings seek to improve the nutrition, fitness, mood, sleep, comfort, and performance of its occupants. This is achieved by implementing programs and strategies designed to encourage healthy active lifestyles. The WELL Building Standard is fairly young having only been launched in October 2014. Not only does the WELL Building Standard address the wellbeing of the occupants within a building but it is designed to work harmoniously with the LEED Green Building Rating System. Being that the WELL Building Standard is so new, how easily is it implemented within a LEED Green Building design?Item Dammed: Master Planning Along the Lower Snake River in a Post Dam-Removal Condition(North Dakota State University, 2024) Kodet, AndrewThe four dams on the lower Snake River in Washington state have numerous impacts on the surrounding environment, and although provide benefits of hydroelectric power, irrigation services, and waterway navigation that alter the state of the river and adjacent land ecologically. The question that persists is if these structures need to be maintained, replaced, or removed altogether; since like all man-made structures, they have a finite lifespan that is approaching its end. The following research and methodologies address design solutions for these dam sites in a post-removal condition through case studies, site analysis, site planning, and design interventions from a landscape architectural lens. Although total removal is not certain as it deals with the influence of many different stakeholders, for the approach it will err on the hypothesis of removal. The unique design approach will open the door for greater opportunities along the river corridor.Item EOS 1: Evolution of Sustainability(North Dakota State University, 2010) Thomas, JonathanHuman interaction is a real need fulfilled by simple communication, verbal or non verbal. Individualism and congregation are part of everyday settings. The built environment has a large influence on how and when these interactions take place. This thesis is focused on the redevelopment of downtown Houston. This community utilizes two undeveloped blocks in the "inner loop" on the border of the high-rise district, and the underdeveloped old industrial district, which was rezoned long ago. The project embraces both individuality and communal need through its integration of spaces though sound Architectural principles. E.O.S. stands for "The Evolution of Sustainability". The building of economical and sustainable communities, that can support a mixture of income levels and house the exchange of both goods and services, is crucial to the health of our future society. EOS is also the name of a Greek Goddess: "Goddess of the dawn", which is appropriate because of the harvesting of natural light that drives the design of the project. The project includes residential living units, retail spaces, restaurants and cafes, and public use areas of both interior and exterior spaces.Item Expanding Experiential Perception(North Dakota State University, 2011) Denault, AllisonBy understanding the affects of built space on those who have limited physical or mental abilities, we are able to create space that could facilitate their very specific needs. Currently, there are many ways to facilitate those with limited abilities, such as the American Disabilities Act of 1990 regulations and codes. This, however, does not begin to describe the effects of built architecture to the perceived observer with disabilities. Designing for a specific group of people, specifically children with autism, allows for the design to enhance their lives. This could be beneficial for some, and even help “treat” others. This specialized mixed-use housing development would be designed through a series of built artifacts that would bridge the gap between designer and client. It would also allow objects used for therapeutic reasons to be incorporated into the design in an essential way. Located next to the Rochester Autism Center, in Rochester, Minnesota, the program calls for temporary living residences, classrooms, and sensory rooms.Item Floating : National Oceanic Living Atelier(North Dakota State University, 2011) Klever, NicholasThis thesis projects itself into the future to answer the questions of what will happen if the current climate changes continue and we are faced with the rising of the sea. The rising sea levels will reclaim a portion of the land area on all the continents of the world. Approximately seventy five percent of our global population would be forced to relocate because we can not survive underwater. A new community development could be created in such a way that would allow a portion of the population from coastal areas to live on the surface of the water. This is important because if all of the population were to condense onto dry land it would cause problems with providing enough resources to support such a large influx of people. The project would need to provide everything that is necessary for a large population to be self sufficient. A mixed use structure or community would be the only choice for such a project to be successful. This new floating city would focus on bringing the imposing water into the everyday lives of the inhabitants in order to create a way of life that is able to coexist with the aquatic environment. The new development will be focused on a coastal city that has already been devastated by flooding in the aftermath of several hurricanes causing hundreds of thousands to lose their homes, many of which have still not returned. The city of New Orleans has a very rich culture and in order to preserve it they are looking for alternatives to the rudimentary dikes and levees. This would make them more open and receptive to such a forward thinking proposal of a new way of life. Such a development would be a radical change from the current system of living. It would be completely autonomous from any support from the infrastructure that operates on the mainland. Only relying on themselves to gather the necessities the residents would understand and learn how to extract energy and other beneficial resources from the sea. Planning regulations would have to be put in place to regulate the consumption of those resources to ensure that the limits of the marine ecosystem are not strained. The construction of this community would have to protect its residents from the strongest tropical storms that they could experience. This community is meant as a permanent residence for those who lost everything when the rising seas had taken back their shorelines and the cities that so close to the coast.