Keirian Tillman's Selected Works

Keirian Tillman

Selected Works

Contact

(785) 813 - 2715

keirianttillman@gmail.com

P.O. Box 4563, Lawrence, KS 66046 issuu.com/keiriant linkedin.com/in/keiriantillman

Skills

Adobe Suite Lumion Microsoft Office Revit

Sketchup Twinmotion

References

Amy Van de Riet

AIA

University of Kansas (785) 550 - 8430 amy.vanderiet@ku.edu

Ray Chao

Direct Supervisor

Jacobs (785) 550 - 9067 ray.chaoreferee@yahoo.com

Joe Colistra AIA

University of Kansas (720) 203 - 5678 jcolistra@ku.edu

5th-year Architecture student in the Master program with an environmental sciences minor at the University of Kansas. Heavy focus on low income and sustainability to move towards a brighter and more equal world.

Education

University of Kansas - May 2024

Master of Architecture

Environmental Studies Minor

University of Kansas - July 2023

Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies

Environmental Studies Minor

Study Abroad - December 2022

Singapore Malaysia

Experience

Downtown Lawrence Design Center

Fall 2023 - May 2024

Designer

Work with clients and property owners in historic Downtown Lawrence to develop project proposals, pro-formas, and presentations.

Collaboration Project w/ Burns & McDonnell

Fall 2022 - Spring 2023

Kansas Aviation Museum Expansion Project

Created an in-depth proposal for the expansion of the Kansas Aviation Museum in collaboration with Burns & McDonnell engineers and architects.

KSHSAA

2014 - Current Soccer Official - Independent Contractor

Officiate High School Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Amateur adult games in the Greater Kansas City area.

Takeoff

An expansion project for the Kansas Aviation Museum in Wichita, KS providing indoor and outdoor display space, galleries, classrooms, an auditorium and offices.

Lakeside Renewal

A high-density housing project in collaboration with HUD focusing on site design & affordability located in Madison, Wisconsin providing 532 units.

Inspired Growth

A vertical housing addition on top of the beloved Seattle Public Library by OMA + LMN

LAC Daycare

An expansion project for the Lawrence Arts Center in Lawrence, KS providing extra daycare space, musical theatre space, and residential units.

The Middle Ground

A mixed-use affordable housing project for Rosedale, Kansas City, Kansas.

Takeoff

Wichita, Kansas

In collaboration with:

Burns & McDonnell Architects + Engineers

Erica Pham

Renders by Keirian Tillman

The Kansas Aviation Museum in Wichita, Kansas is running out of space. The existing building is unable to host many planes as interior display and have the majority sitting on the exterior behind the building. This project bridges the space between Earth and Sky, discovering Topeka’s historic aircraft on its way, while providing an innovative aircraft display technique for students, teachers, veterans, and aircraft enthusiasts to explore.

Entry & Bus Drop-off

Glass Display Atrium

Display area into Atrium

Theater Lobby into Atrium

Entry & Bus Drop-off

Lakeside Renewal

Madison, Wisconsin

In collaboration with:

United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

Simba Mahuku

Emily

Almloff, Ian Njuguna, James Noteman

The site in Madison, Wisconsin is currently inhabited by a 169-unit housing authority along with its office. HUD asks that the site greatly increases the housing density. Rent-to-own and keeping current residents on site were two things I heavily prioritized with proper phasing and single-family homes. The amounts of each unit type provided was derived from local data regarding units needed at certain price points and family sizes to be catered to Madison’s population.

Site View

Site Design

The site strategy was to break up the massive 7-acre site. To do this, I mirrored Gilson St. to create a new street front, then split the site in half by continuing Emerson St. to the other new street. The townhomes along Gilson Road and West Olin Avenue help visually transition to the higher density apartment buildings along Emerson Street. This also allows the site to face front doors with front doors and back doors with back doors to create a more community-driven and friendly neighborhood. The phasing of this program allows for all current residents of Bjarnes Romnes Apartments to move a single time to be properly relocated.

West Olin Avenue

Gilson Road

West Lakeside Street

Emerson Street

Integrated into each ADA unit are technologies that will ensure a better well-being for residents of Lakeside. These technologies focus on signs of health deteriation for early detection of health abnormalities. The data collected by the implemented technologies will be sent down to the respective Living Lab for investigative research. This extremely valuable data located in the first floor of the apartment buildings can be utilized by a research partner at the University of Madison-Wisconsin, Marquette University, or others to further research intohealth-benefiting technologies. The value of this data allows for higher rent ($37 / sq.ft.) than standard commercial to be appropriately charged, drastically aiding the ability for the apartments to be affordable.

Gilson Road

Smart Mirror

Bed Sensors

Gait Analysis

Collection

Fall Detection

Smart Toilet

Primary Street

Total Sq. Ft. : 489,944

Total Cost : $114,971,836

Total Units : 532

Studios : 196 units

1-Bedrooms : 175 units

2-Bedrooms : 53 units

3-Bedrooms : 40 units

2-Bedroom TH : 44 units

3-Bedroom TH : 24 units

Inspired Growth

Seattle, Washington

In collaboration with:

The Seattle Public Library by OMA was built at the turn of the century as a step forward in the idea of what a library is. The Central Library served as the bridge between new media and old, defining specific uses to separate floors, shifted horizontally to visually create breaks between them. The design took a different angle to the standard approach of making a library flexible by making those uses unbudging and purpose-built. Koolhaas also drifted from normal practice by treating the library as a public “living room” and implementing public amenities within the library to better serve the community’s needs. These community amenities are specifically honed to the homeless community in Seattle, a large population. One of the largest gaps in Koolhaas’ concept is serving the greatest need of the population that he targeted - housing. This project seeks to complete the vision Koolhaas had while keeping in mind the need for higher density in the downtown Seattle area. This location also has the benefit of existing amenities for the community in the library, and a great location. A structural connection will be made between the steel and timber columns, while vertical circulation will be jointed in the first floor of the addition, also now the 12th story of the new building.

In-Context View

Concept & Form

The Douglas Fir Larch tree has two primary uses in the Northwest: heavy timber construction and paper. This project seeks to bridge the connection between the two by emulating a bookcase in its form. Vertical sets of housing units are offset from others in both height and depth to indicate the individual stories each resident may have. Joining those books with heavy timber construction binds the Douglas Fir Larch members back together, even though they served separate usages. To accomodate the Library’s skylight, the bookcase is split in two, then a circulation space provides the bookends to the book units. Set between the two bookcases is a pile of books haphazardly stacked on each other, yet to be read.

Project Data

102,000 sq. ft.

82 Residential Units

7 Stories of heavy-timber addition

Locally-sourced Douglas Fir Larch Timber

Form Development

Southwest Elevation

Southeast Elevation

Douglas Fir Larch Native & populous tree in Northern Washington/Canada

Project Overview

Birds-Eye Axon

LAC Daycare Expansion

Lawrence, Kansas

In collaboration with:

Lawrence Arts Center

The Lawrence Arts Center wants to expand its daycare program, and while they’re at it, provide more space for their music program and subsidize costs with some artist residences. The project is meant to fit into the context and build upon the current Lawrence Arts Center, while the form is meant to protect those in the daycare program. The separate entities of the Lawrence Arts Center requested their programs feel as though they belong to the same building, but do not intermix.

Site Plan

NewHampshireSt.

Provide safe courtyard for childcare

Theater Lobby into Atrium

Separate different programs; daycare, theater, and residential

Fill site for maximum usage

Follow language of Arts Center & Transom

New Corner

Note: Income from all spaces besides residential are not included as charged rates for daycare and private instrument tutoring are unknown. No daycare teacher or tutor incomes are calculated as costs.

The Middle Ground

Rosedale, Kansas City, Kansas

In collaboration with:

Lindsay Armstrong

Tylor Portier

KayLee Nottestad

Rosedale is in desperate need for more low-income housing projects. This project serves that need and provides amenities to the residents such as a technology center, work-space, and small gym. This form utilizes the natural slope present on the site as a green/planter area for the multi-use apartment complex’s residents. My project is being proposed alongside three other partner projects aiding in other needs form the community. The site is located next to a historic drive-in theater to the SouthWest.

Merriam Ln. Entrance

Merriam Ln

Egress

ADA Accessible Apt.

Elevator Stair

Primary Members

Secondary Members

Structural Columns

Interstitial Space

3rd & 4th Floor

Park-Facing Facade