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Item Architecture and Cultural Definition(North Dakota State University, 2012) Nelson, JohnTypology: North Dakota American Indian Center Site: Chief Looking’s Indian Village Bismarck, ND Area: 23,000 sq ft This thesis will investigate the role of architecture in representing and retaining a culture through architecture’s inherent characteristic as a symbol of past and present cultures. This project focuses on the Native American populations of the Bismarck/Mandan area and the effect a cultural center could have on the larger community. The project is placed within the landscape of the historic site Chief Looking’s Indian Village located within Bismarck, North Dakota. In the project I work towards a higher goal of creating an artifact sensitive to the Native American culture and a symbol of continued growth.Item rEACH Central Ground Pet Healthcare Facility(North Dakota State University, 2020) Hazelett, SarahAnimals have been beside humans for centuries, throughout the time we have tried to understand and domesticate all sorts of animals. There are many benefits to having pets in our lives, including a happier and healthier life. However, without a proper understanding of what the needs of the animals are, the worse our relationship with them will be. Can we design a facility that will provide proper pet healthcare throughout an animal’s life? There is most likely little need for explaining why animal cruelty is wrong but a need to understand what is acceptable and not acceptable. This research strategy would begin with a qualitative analysis based on interviews and messages from various resources to help find any correlations or repetitions that could incorporate a new emergency hospital that would adequately give proper healthcare to pets. Intended for this facility, the intention to create spaces that can provide emergency care, therapeutic care, physical health, and mental wellbeing.Item Bismarck State Hospital(North Dakota State University, 2016) Hoffmann, KaspariThe premise of this project is how people regularly encounter architecture and how design has the potential to positively impact mental health and enable more independence in the lives of people who are affected by it. This project is primarily centered around bridging the connection between research of neurological disorders, mental health, and how they interact with the design world. The end product will be a new state mental hospital for North Dakota that aims to develop a built environment that helps people with debilitating mental disorders get onto the road of recovery and ultimately learn how to integrate themselves into society and lead better lives.Item Light & Learning(North Dakota State University, 2013) Diekman, LukeMy thesis investigates the question: how does exposure to natural light enhance academic performance in an elementary school? My claim is that exposure to natural light enhances academic performance in elementary schools. The actors being the natural elements; light. The action being exposure to natural elements in the academic setting. The object being students in elementary schools. The exploration of this thesis will be done by means of an elementary school Bismarck ND. My premises are as follows: light is a biological need that stimulates brain activity and influences mood; exposure to natural light positively influences the learning environment and physchological well-being of those who inhabit it; students in elementary schools learn better, and enjoy the spaces more when natural light is integrated with their experiences. The justification for my thesis is that learning/education is very important to our society as a whole, as well as individually. The learning environment shapes our thoughts and influences our passions. I have experienced the power of light on an environment, and I want to pursue this topic so that others can learn, enjoy and explore that experience as well.Item Bismarck-Mandan Rail Bridge Park: Using Private-Public Infill to Create a Destination Waterfront Park in the City of Bismarck, North Dakota(North Dakota State University, 2020) Schmidt, Austin M.This study focuses on the preservation of the Bismarck-Mandan rail bridge and surrounding 200-acre site as a catalyst to transform the waterfront of North Dakota’s capital city into a 21st-Century urban park. Announced by the National Historic Trust for Historical Places, the iconic community structure has been listed as one of “America’s 11 most Most Endangered Historic Places” in 2019. With the backing of the Historic Trust, Preservation of North Dakota, community members, and the non-profit group, Friends of the Rail Bridge, the historic truss bridge has gained traction to be repurposed as a pedestrian bridge linking the parks and open spaces of the two cities. Much like the Brooklyn Bridge site, which the rail bridge predates, the city had turned its back on the river. Utilizing a comparative case study methodology to compare successful traits of transformative waterfronts, particularly in an urban context, this study resulted in a best-practices matrix to inform the urban park programming and design. This project expands on the role of a separate entity tasked with the re-purposing, operation, and maintenance of the bridge to include creating an adjacent park suitable enough to become a mixed-use destination and a city-shaping gateway to the West.Item Festival on Fifth Street: A Multi-modal Streetscape and Cultural Center in Downtown Bismarck, North Dakota.(2016) Anderson, DylanThis thesis is a study conducted to explore the effects of revitalizing a downtown street emphasizing the pedestrian. Through research, the streetscape will be redeveloped for the safety of pedestrians as well as various modes of traffic. Discovering what activities the pedestrian wants on a street will bring a steady flow of people to utilize a downtown space more often and make the street more comfortable to be shared with pedestrians as well as modes of transportation. The study considers adding the elements of a complete street (drive, bike, parking, transit, and walk lanes, also, planting and furniture zones) street trees/shrubs and new paving patterns to the urban core and community space for both private and civic use. As defined from the research and along with case studies the final design of a better streetscape for pedestrians will be accomplished.Item Urbanscape Revitalization(2012) Grant, LeroyThis thesis will seek to explore how Landscape Architecture, through strategic urban design and planning, can be instrumental to improving the unstable population within Urban communities. Such horrific decay of urban areas occur because of uncertain economic forecast. Urban communities or cities have a tendency of experiencing drastic fluctuation of population size (during various economic cycles) due to economic volatility. With effective urban planning and implementations of new regulations, urban communities are able to weather the unpredictable economic landscape. Sustainable planning can be realized through the enhancement of existing urban amenities, providing alternative to vehicular transportation, and reducing urban sprawl through mix-use developments. Maximizing social and economic benefits for the city or urban community in particular with human health, a public problem in America today is the alarming obesity rate among children. Entrepreneurial activities of local development officials do stimulate investment for the urbanscape. Highlighting the character of the cultural heritage urban community’s is also of great importance. Community members will begin to embrace an environmental sense of place for their urban community. With the intent of eliminating negative impacts on our urban amenities, the technique of promoting the metropolitan’s potential for high economic success. Allowing higher degree of socioeconomic diversity among the community’s population, add vitality, economic stability, and even safety because it will allow for land-usage at various times of the day.Item Designing for Humanity(North Dakota State University, 2018) Thordson, ElizabethThis thesis aims to explore the idea that a healthy prison design will in turn create a healthy atmosphere. I will work to design a prison that will aid in the inmates’ transition back into society. By designing a structure that provides views to nature, access to natural sunlight, and room to move semi freely, I believe inmates will be healthier and happier. Currently the United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world and over half of the people incarcerated will end up back in prison within 5 years of their release. The oppressive nature of prisons create an unhealthy, aggressive attitude, which is reflected in riots, outbursts, and threats. The main goal of all prisons should be to help inmates re-enter society successfully. However, most prisons in the United States run on the idea of retributive justice instead of reformative justice. Retributive justice is defined by Wikipedia as “a theory of justice which holds that the best response to a crime is a suitable punishment, inflicted for its own sake. The only goal in retributive justice is punishment.” This idea is extremely damaging, not only to the inmates themselves but to society as a whole. I cannot change the way inmates are being treated but I can change the way the architecture treats them.Item Creating for creativity(North Dakota State University, 2014) Brackel, AliciaThis thesis, Creating for Creativity, examines the impact an experience of an environment has on its inhabitant’s creativity. The typology of this project is a 76,000 square foot art museum and creativity center located in downtown Bismarck, North Dakota. Stimulating experiences create opportunities for discovery and insight which can lead to the increase of one’s creativity. Architecture can be used to help create those stimulating experiences that would encourage the human users to live in the physical world rather than the virtual world. This will be researched by using the concurrent transformative mixed method approach, combining qualitative and quantitative data to present a cohesive analysis.