Caleb O. Sears xxxxx.x.xxxxx@gmail.com xxx.xxx.xxxx xxxxxxx xxxxx xxxx New Orleans, La xxxxx
Education 2009 - 2011 M. Arch Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. 2004 - 2008 B.A. Arch University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky. Professional Experience 2012 Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, New Orleans, La. Designer New Orleans East Hospital New Orleans Adolescent Hospital New Orleans Arena Commerce Building Apartments, Baton Rouge 2008 Foundation For Advanced Architecture, Lexington, Ky. Construction, restoration and renovation of Jose Oubrerie’s Miller House Guyon Architects, Lexington, Ky. Intern Architect, developed renderings and drawings 2007 University of Kentucky Pence Hall Library Designer/Construction, conference room, storage, and media center 2006 FutureProof, LLC, New Orleans, La. Publication drawings, renderings Digital Skills Drafting - AutoCAD, Revit 2013 Modeling - Rhinoceros 5.0 Rendering - V Ray for Rhinoceros Graphic - Adobe CS5 Etc - Microsoft Office Analog Skills Able to quickly produce detailed sketches and models, as well as quality drafted drawings and renderings.
Academic Experience 2009- 2011 Virginia Tech, Dr. Hilary Bryon Graduate Assistant, assisted in research and documentation 2010 Workshop Instructor, ‘distilling ideas through collage’ Foundation Studio, Virginia Tech 2007 Henderson Studio, Lexington,Ky., Henderson, Ky., and Los Angeles,Ca. University of Kentucky in collaboration with SCI Arc Research and Stimulus Plan for Henderson, Ky 2006 KNOA Studio, New Orleans, La. Pro Bono Park Redevelopment Research, Working Documents, and Procured City Funding for Markey Park Awards and Honors 2007 Key to the City of New Orleans (with KNOA Studio) Pella Memorial Scholarship First Place, University of Kentucky Bus Stop Competition 2006 Digital Media in Architecture Scholarship UK Architecture Alumni Scholarship 2005 FIrst-Year Architecture Award Godsey and Associates Architecture Scholarship 2004 St. James Court Scholarship Dean of the School of Architecture Entering Undergraduate Scholarship
4 X 4 HOUSE Blacksburg, Virginia The house sits in a hillside. It is carved out of a cubic 4 x 4 grid system in both plan and section. The grid is defined in the basement, dissolving but still apparent in the main floor, and broken in the third floor through a twisting motion. The main floor is a tube of light. To the north lies a wide view down the hill towards slumped mountains, to the south a walled garden with a small pond. It contains all of the social spaces. The space is centered around a large winter hearth. In the warmer months the front window wall can be opened, transforming the living space into a front porch. The floor below is dark and spare. It contains a garage and serves as the cluttered dresser drawer for the house, a place to put things out of the way. All of the odds and ends go here. On top of the light tube is a village of four houses- three for living, and one for the stairs and books. The houses are clustered around a pinwheel courtyard open to the sky, focused around the hearth that springs from the lower levels. Each of the houses in the village has its own four walls and a roof. From far away the house appears as a whole icon, disintegrating as one comes closer. The roofline becomes fragmented as each house in the village asserts itself. With the pitching of the roof, the project both breaks its cubic construct and becomes part of the suburban context.
MIGRANT FARM WORKER HOUSING Harrodsburg, Kentucky This thesis proposes new housing for migrant farm workers outside of Harrodsburg, Kentucky. The complex deals with architecture’s relationship to place and community while providing a dignified dwelling, imparting a sense of permanence and home to a constantly moving population. The complex deals with place through a connection to the regional built context while creating a new formal typology. By externally revealing programmatic relationships through massing and allowing individual housing units to assert themselves within the collective, the complex becomes an interconnected housing cluster that is neither house nor barn. It instead imparts the image of a small village or settlement, an image of community.
MARKEY PARK REDESIGN New Orleans, Louisiana A Park Formed By Shade The park plays on the relationship between lights and shades of various intensities, and the activities that take place in light and shade. The physical activities are centered around sunlight and flourescent light, while leisure activities are centered around shade. The existing trees create a reversal of the traditional courtyard space- the private interior space has become the public interior space as people gather around the shade. Markey Park was named after the proprietor of Markey’s Bar, Micky Markey, who originally owned the land and gave it as a gift to the Bywater neighborhood in New Orleans. Once a lively park, it fell into disrepair after Hurricane Katrina. KNOA Studio, as a collective, designed and aquired funding for the new park. The program park is determined by five existing live oaks, which provide much needed shade to its users. The park draws from the local tradition of courtyards, and in our design for the park we split the courtyard into two types- the courtyards that exist in the day, within the park, and the courtyards that exist at night, situated on the periphery of the park for safety.
Credits: Phase 1- Jason Richards, Tony Shiber, Ashley Beardsley, Caleb Sears Phase 2- KNOA Studio
Exterior Courtyards
Pavilion
FRUIT BOWL Constructed from a single sheet of quarter inch Plexiglas, the platform becomes manifest through a series of cuts, perforations, and folds. The order of the manipulations of the plane lies in direct relationship to the manufacturing process. The bowl exists as a structural total, with the legs, expansive wings, and raised dais providing the basic functions of fruit containment by lifting the fruit off the ground and limiting movement of fruit to the zones within the platform. Cuts Cuts produce secondary and tertiary planes operating within the boundaries of the primary plane. Perforations Tiny diamond voids move the mass of the bowl towards the center, allowing the wings to extend further and the bowl to contain more fruit. Folds Folding the plane transforms a one-dimensional drawing into a volume, creating a platform that contains the fruit.
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