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Jimenez, Carlos Brady, Megan 2009-06-04T08:29:11Z 2009-06-04T08:29:11Z 2005 Brady, Megan. "Casting the void." (2005) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17759">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17759</a>. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17759 RICE2768 THESIS ARCH. 2005 BRADY Void implies an edge or boundary condition, an absence within a substance, a space between. It is defined not by what it is but by what it is not. The act of filling in, of infilling, be it with new structures, defined park space, or even just a name is a sign of progress in that it connects and makes whole that which already exists. It densifies. But here density is not defined by simply filling a space, building a building, creating a unified facade along the street. Here density is a fluctuating state rather than a prescribed construction. It is measured by its ability to transform and to incite activity. Density is cast. The process of casting becomes the methodology both for analyzing the void and bringing a density to it. 68 pp application/pdf reformatted digital eng Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder. Architecture Casting the void Thesis Text Thesis was rescanned at 24-bit color in 2020. PDF has been OCR’d and made accessible. Architecture Architecture Rice University Masters Master of Architecture taggedPDF open.access