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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 Community Resilience: Investing in Walkability(2011) Mellgren, AshleyCurrently, Main Avenue is lacking character and connection to the rest of Fargo, North Dakota. Most of Main Avenue is zoned commercial, and it appears to be highly industrialized because of full scale billboards, concrete buildings and lack of visual aesthetic toward the roadway, greenspace and sidewalks. This thesis investigates how balancing pedestrian and vehicular traffic could positively impact Main Avenue by increasing economic development and safety. The thesis further investigates how the integration of environmentally conscious and sustainable initiatives can contribute to the socio-economic resilience of the streetscape.Item Landfill re-morial : a postmodern reclamation of the City of Fargo landfill(2015) Okigbo, KeneThis thesis takes a quantitative look at closed landfills to determine a feasible and sustainable solution that can be used in the City of Fargo Landfill, which is expected to close between 2019 and 2023 without a post-closure plan. The solution proposed is the creation of a recreational park for the Fargo-Moorhead community. Some of the elements included within this park are Habitational Winter Sports Hills, Biproduct Management Sculptures, and Interactive Outdoor Sculpture Classrooms. The intent behind these amenities is to create year-round uses for the park, which will attract site users and allow them to remember the experience. The design of this park has two purposes. The first is to make an amenity of value for the community. The second purpose is to educate the people of Fargo-Moorhead about how their waste management practices can be changed and how a cradle-to-cradle mentality in waste management is beneficial to them.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 Great escapeway : connecting North Dakota State University to downtown Fargo(2015) Latham, RobertThe primary focus of this thesis is to demonstrate how the Great Northern Rail Corridor, located in Fargo, North Dakota, can be repurposed into a greenway that connects North Dakota State University and its students with Downtown Fargo. This site proposal accommodates bicyclists and pedestrians by providing users with a pragmatic and scenic greenway. The proposal’s result, according to its author, is a design that provides not only a safe passage between the main and downtown campuses, but a community recreational facility, offering cycling, walking, cross-country skiing, running, ice skating and picnicking.Item Smart Streets: Envisioning Autonomous Mobility through Active Spaces and Economic Design Practices in Fargo, North Dakota(North Dakota State University, 2018) Zens, TrevorSafety is the top priority and designing for all users, with special attention to the pedestrian will be addressed. Next, increasing mobility on NDSU’s downtown campus will start with a design for more flexible and affordable modes of transportation such as bikes and autonomous vehicles tied into a much larger system in the FM area. With the addition of new automated technologies re-balancing the right-of-way will challenge the norm. In doing this I will not expand the streets but relocate street spaces to be more active and sustainable using technology to manage the public realm in a more active way. Lastly, I will implement a real-time management system to make these proactive streets feasible. In hitting on these four major points the spatial benefit of autonomous urban campus planning will flourish into a real-life solution that we all can benefit from.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.