09 | Solid & Void
In architecture, the relationship between solid and void refer to the
presence and absence of mass in a volume. The relationship between these two principles generates a volume’s form. Unlike space, which refers to something that is, the absence of mass we see, experience, and inhabit, void refers to the “nothing that is absent,� the mass that is not there. While space refers to the presence of the intangible, void refers to the absence of the
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tangible.
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Clay Model: The solid and void of this form is created through subtractive processes.
