Sustainable Connections: A Comprehensive Design of a Energy-Efficient Convention Center

Author

• Alexis Kautzman

Files

Date of Award

2013

Document Type

Thesis

Handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10365/22885

Publisher

North Dakota State University

Rights

NDSU Policy 190.6.2

URI

https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf

Abstract

Sustainable Connections: A Comprehensive Design of a Energy-Efficient Convention Center is a design thesis focused on the issue how can adaptive sustainable methods and technologies be applied to a convention center to design a energy-efficient structure? The design is of a convention center located in Shakopee Minnesota just off of the Minnesota River on the existing site of Huber Park. Creating a energy-efficient structure with new technologies will help build a connection to the environment, site and city through sustainable measures, to lessen the impact architecture has on the natural world. Architecture has a responsibility to protect, serve and improve society with sustainable design. With proper design strategies, technologies, and materials, large facilities such as convention centers can be created as energy-efficient structures serving to improve the environment and local community.

Recommended Citation

Kautzman, Alexis, "Sustainable Connections: A Comprehensive Design of a Energy-Efficient Convention Center" (2013). Architecture Theses. 680.
https://digitalcommons.ndsu.edu/architecture-theses/680