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REESE GILMORE SELECTED WORKS 2025 ARCHITECTURE
REESE GILMORE
reesemgilmore@icloud.com r549g023@ku.edu
A creative at heart, I’m studying architecture at the University of Kansas and completing my M.Arch degree by 2026. I am dedicated to making sustainable and accessible designs while enjoying detail-oriented work in architecture, which extends to a secondary passion for fashion and sewing. I enjoy collaborating with others as it brings a fresh look to the world around me and allows me to explore tactics I can use in my professional work. I seek to connect and make positive impacts on my communities through my work.
EDUCATION
Master of Architecture
University of Kansas
March
2021 - current
gradution date / MAY 2026
High School Diploma
Shawnee Mission South
2021
ACHIVEMENTS
Kansas City Architectural Foundation Scholarship 2022
Kansas State Seal of Bi-literacy - French Literacy 2021
Congress For Global Good Award Of Excellence 2020
Languages
English - Native
French - Conversational
WORK EXPERIENCE
Architectural Intern - Hernly ASSOCIATES MAY 2025 / August 2025
Architectural intern working in residential and commercial renovations, remodels, and new construction. Collaborating with clients and contractors to realize their architectural visions, while creating schematic designs, plot plans, and construction documents for permits and construction.
Freelance Seamstress
MAY 2019 / CURRENT
Independent sewing jobs such as hemming, altering, or creating whatever project a client asks or dreams of.
STRUCTURAL Manager - Dirt Works Studio
August 2023 / MAY 2024
Student of Dirt Works Studio and Structural Manager. Designed a 500 square foot home alongside thirteen dedicated students at the University of Kansas . As the structural manager I communicated with structural engineers and other professionals. I modeled our home’s structure and interior finish, CLT.
VOLUNTEER WORK
Family Promise, Lawrence KS
Group furniture build for Family Promise’s newest family housing in Lawrence 2024
SOFTWARES
THE TOWERS
TOWERS
MIXED-USE URBAN HIGHRISE
SHENZHEN, CHINA
COMPLETED IN SKETCHUP AND LOOK X AI
FALL 2024
PUBLIC VS PRIVATE
The red base represents the public floor retail and commerical space. The orange high-rise towers are private residential space.
VENTILATION
Ventilation cuts on the ground floor breakup the commerical program with open-air circulation. Cuts in the towers provide natural ventilation through each apartment type.
Pull of upper floors on southern facade face provides natural shading. The roof is angled for solar panel sun collection.
CONNECTIONS TO VIEWS
Private balconies for each resident provide private open air space and expands the views to the city of Shenzhen.
Urban Shenzhen was designated as a Special Economic Zone in the 1980s and continues to undergo rapid industrialization and urbanization, making the area perfect for a mixed-used public podium with private residential towers. The towers cascade as shown in the content axo, to collect solar energy and match the surrounding content of tall buildings and flat sites. The driving design behind the building was ventilation and access to the outdoors. By creating large gaps in the interior program of the towers, space opens up to become an outdoor program important to the users.
SUN SHADING AND SOLAR STRATEGIES
Public Drop off and pickup
Bio Swell
SOUTHERN SECTION CUT AA
STUDIO APARTMENT FLOOR PLAN
TWO BEDROOM APARTMENT FLOOR PLAN
FAMILY APARTMENT FLOOR PLAN
SOUTHERN ELEVATION
EASTERN ELEVATION
EGRESS AND USER DIAGRAM
ELEVATOR STAIRS
TWO BEDROOM USER PATH
FAMILY USER PATH
Perferated Metal Panel System Bi-Folding Glass Wall System
Bamboo Flooring (Residential Spaces)
Concrete Topper (Public Spaces)
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND POST-RECONILATION CENTER
COMPLETED IN REVIT AND ADOBE SUITE
SITE
PLAN
CONTEXT MAP BY MAKENNA DAWSON
EARLY SKETCHES
The Center for Reflection and Transitional Justice in Tulsa specializes in Additction, alchol, and drug-related offenses and assists towards recovery. The
JURY
COURTROOM
PUBLIC LAW
STAFF/MISC.
PROBATION
CLASSROOM
LARGE HALLWAYS FOR WORK OR COVERSATION SPACE
BI-FOLDING DOOR BETWEEN CLASSROOMS
FamilyBreakoutRoom
FamilyBreakoutRoom
COURTROOM
CIRCULAR LAYOUT
SECOND FLOOR
FIRST FLOOR
ENVIRONMENTAL DIAGRAM BY MAKENNA DAWSON
ROOF PLAN
0’ 5 15 30
KEY
C. LOW-E WINDOWS AND OVERHANGS FOR SHADING
D. DROUGHT-RESISTANT NATIVE LANDSCAPING
A. PHOTOVOLTAIO PANELS ON ROOF AND PERGOLAS
B. SILENT WIND TURBINE TREES
LATITUDINAL SECTION
COURTROOM RENDER BY MAKENNA DAWSON
FEATURE STAIR RENDER BY MAKENNA DAWSON
EMBER EMPORIUM
BUSINESS INCUBATOR
EMBER EMPORIUM
HISTORIC DOWNTOWN LAWRENCE, KANSAS
COMPLETED IN RHINO AND ENSCAPE
FALL 2022
The building intends to be a business incubator and facilitate interaction between the community and small businesses.
The site is located in the lively strip of downtown Lawrence known as Mass Street. The flourishing site has a unique condition of parti walls, sharing both the north and south walls of Ember with its neighboring businesses.
MOVEMENT AND CIRULATION DIAGRAM
SECOND FLOOR SKYLIGHT
Building Form
Fire Escape for neighboring property
Second Floor
First Floor
GROUND FLOOR SEATING
Office Spaces
Public Spaces
Flow of Public Spaces is focused on drawing people from the street into the small buisesses
The green spaces on the first and second floors provide fresh air and colorful vegetation to the multi-use space.
Fritted glass encloses the space while magnifying the natural light entering through the green spaces providing warm ambient lighting throughout.
Touches of warm wood rap the space on the floors, ceiling, and in the green spaces. Wood tones are known to promote natural light in a space and recent psychological studies show wood in interior spaces promotes a healthy environment.
Connection between floors and building program
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
GROUND FLOOR
1. Retail
2. Food and Drink
3. Indoor Seating
4. Outdoor Seating
5. Storage
SECOND FLOOR
6. Outdoor Space
7. Conference Room
8. Office Spaces
9. Retail
10. Customer and business services
11. Storage
PHOENIX HOUSE
STRUCTURAL MANAGER
DIRT WORKS STUDIO
DESIGN BUILD
AUGUST 2023 - MAY 2024
PHOTOS BY MAKENNA DAWSON
DIRT WORKS STUDIO INSTUCTOR: CHAD KRAUS
STUDENTS: REESE Gilmore, Corrie Bolton, Julia Bond, Grace Beirne, Morgan Campbell, Makenna Dawson, Hayley Ford, Aidan Hall, Alyda Hunnicutt, Morgan Kime, Spencer Landis, Adin Mehanovic, Samantha Weidner, and Amanda Willen.
Phoenix House is a design-build project through Dirt Works studio and Founder Chad Kraus. Fourteen students total, inlucding myself, parntern with the Lawrence chapter of Tenants to Homeowners, a local not-for-profit that gives those in need a rental property and or home providing them an opportuinty to have a safe and personal space. This one-of-a-kind CLT home took sixteen weeks to design and build, with a focus on durabilty and an inviting enviroment ahcieved through creative and constuction collaboration as architects and students with each other and the local supportive commuinty of East Lawrence.
EXTERIOR WOOD CLADDING
4.5” CLT WALL
POLYISO INSULATION
ZIP SHEATHING
CONCRETE FOUNDATION AND FLOORS
OREGAN STREET
1. Entry
Bedroom
Living Room
Kitchen
2 3 4 5
Bathroom
PHOTO BY MAKENNA DAWSON
PHOTO BY MAKENNA DAWSON
CLT known as Cross Laminated Timber is a system of lumber planks compressed together to create a strong structural grid and soild wood construction. I was given the opportunity to act as structurtal mamanger alongside one other student, we created the strucutral contruction documents for the walls and roof, as well as detail drawings and shop drawings. Furthermore we were able to conduct business with CLT companies and our structural parnters APEX Engineering throughout the design phase, collaborating with porfessionals in the feild of architecture and construction.
pushes the concept of typical flat pack furniture and can be assemble and dissembled in two minutes, and has the permanent flat pack function.
This chair is a prototype to test the connections stability and wood joinery as it’s intended to have constant ware on the connecting joints.
THRIFTED AND UPCYCLED FABRICS USED
detailed work becomes something unique. I’d love to continue my passion
HANDMADE PATTERNS USED TO SEW ALL ITEMS PICTURED
reesemgilmore@icloud.com r549g023@ku.edu