Caleb Schroeder - Architecture Work Sample (Jan. 2024)

Tulane University

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Caleb Schroeder

Caleb Schroeder Phone - (614) 725-6752 Email - cschroeder1@tulane.edu Webiste - calebcschroeder.com Website

Education May 2026

June 2021

5-Year Bachelor of Architecture Tulane Univeristy School of Architecture High School Klein Cain High School

Work History January 2024 - Present

August 2023 - Present

Summer 2023

Teaching Assistant Arch 2122 - Materials & Methods Architectural Staff Zach Smith Consulting & Deisgn Architectural Intern Zach Smith Consulting & Deisgn

Experience August 2023

May 2023

Peer Mentor 1st Year School of Architecture Students Vice President Tulane University American Institute of Architecture Students

Achievements March 2021

April 2020

4th Place Modeling Division Texas State Technology Student Association Competition Honorable Mention NEF Design Drafting Competition

Softwares 3D & 2D Modeling Revit - AutoCAD - Rhinoceros 6/7/8 - Grasshopper

Rendering V-Ray - Enscape - Twin Motion

Adobe Suite Illustrator - Photoshop - Indesign Physical Fabrication Laser Cutting - 3D Printing - Hand Modeling/Woodworking

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1 Bridging the Gaps 2 Branching Out Parkside Residence 3 Horizontal Home 4 Jefferson Island Center 5 Parametric Design 6 Pg. 4-5

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Bridging the Gaps Los Angeles, California Fall, 2023 Urban Planning Professor Angela Morton In partnership with Alexa Trapani, this project focuses as an urban planning design for a portion of downtown Los Angeles, densifying the formerly warehouse ridden area. With a focus on revitalizing the ecology within the region, the urban plan set to add parks and public green spaces throughout. Utilizing a simple kit of parts, buildings were shaped around a newly design road system with a 3 system hierarchy, giving pedestrians the majority of access and limiting cars. Working from the urban fabric of downtown, the newly added structures slope in height as they approach the river and Boyle Heights neighborhood.

Axonometric

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Model Photo

Model Photo

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Branching Out Los Angeles, California Fall, 2023 Urban Catalyst Professor Angela Morton Building off of the Urban Plan, the Catalyst building aims to start a chain reaction, focused on the restoration of park space and trees within the community. The catalyst is divided into two sides, with a more private centric and more public centric side. These are then joined by multipurpose rooms hidden underneath the green space that envelopes the entire structure. The goal was to make the structure itself the new green space and erect itself into place. Trees are placed throughout to tie back to surrounding parks and the facade is constructed of metal ribbon, weaving and changing density to cast shadows mimicking that of native trees.

Axonometric

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First Floor

Second Floor

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Street Perspective

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Parkside Residence New Orleans, Louisiana Spring, 2023 Collective Housing Professor Sergio Alvarez Combining knowledge from the previous three projects of domestic spaces throughout the semester, this project emphasizes both the surrounding community and the function of the spaces within. With 6 variations of homes, the interlocking of different groups of people allows for a more cohesive and functional cohousing system. With a centered focus around active families, Parkside Residences combines numerous variations of homes to accommodate both the families existing on the site, as well as welcoming new families to the area. Featuring a continuous, snaking volume on the Western side of the site, the East side is dedicated toward a central park for the community that bleeds over and under. This is a completely public and open area, whereas the stepping-back terraces within the project provide select homes with a more privatized outdoor experience. The park features a playground for young children as well as a sunken, started amphitheater. As the project snakes around the existing projects, Frankie and Johnny’s was relocated to a more suitable spot for both the restaurant as well as the community. Now located on the corner of Tchoupitoulas and Joseph Street, there is more foot traffic as well as an increase in area for the establishment.

Section A + B

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Full Site Plan

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Axonometric

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Horizontal Home Spring, 2023 Small Scale Architecture Professor Sergio Alvarez This is the first of 3 projects in a series studying homes and domestic spaces. This project consisted of creating a 1-story, 1200 square foot house, that is capable of housing a family of 5. In addition to this, 25% of the space must be dedicated to courtyards, providing the natural light as the exterior partition wall can contain no windows. Within this project, it was roughly set apart into 12 sections, with the bottom 4 being offset. The private living is off to the right side and the shared living to the left, with a courtyard on either side of the home.

Framing Axonometric

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Plan

Section

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Jefferson Island Center New Iberia, Louisiana Fall, 2022 Site Centered Architecture Professor Irene Keil The study of the history and significance of the site was a large portion of this project but also saw the design of a welcome/education center that was built to interact with the site and encompass the history of the location. The rows of wooden supports going out into the lake are a powerful marker of the industrial past of the island and the new center is linked to their location. A building at the foot of the hill and parallel to the lake shore houses a lobby, information kiosk, bathroom, and support spaces. A long boardwalk, reminiscent of the old transportation paths in the lake, leads to a circular pier structure floating in the lake. The circular nature of the structure improves circulation and encompasses remnants of the old pier. The top level is meant to serve as gallery spaces and a long continuous ramp serves the bottom three rooms, alluding to descending down into the old salt mines.

First Floor Plan

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Perspective

Historic Salt Map

Historic Mining Map

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Parametric Design Fall, 2023 Advanced Digital Media Professor Adam Marcus Utilizing Grasshopper, I created a parametric system with variable change from the top left down to the bottom left. It is a system of notching pieces that scale in size, changing the repeatable system in small increments. This system was then translated into a digital and physical model. The primary focus was to see how the software could aid in the iterations and approach to variational design and yield a legible product. The physical model measures 17” x 17” and was created out of chipboard. It contains 168 individual pieces that fix together without glue or tape.

Digital Model

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Physical Model

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Thank you!