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09 | Sold & Void
09 | Solid & Void
26 Principles of Design
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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 tangible.
Clay Model: The solid and void of this form is created through subtractive processes.
The Relationship Between Solid and Void and the Plane: The solid and voids each form unique variations of geometries, and it is the colliding of these two systems that gives the continuous plan an interesting form. In this piece, the voids have the dominant visual presence, and it is after seeing the voids that the solid’s form is reveiled.
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