Transforming cities by building roads for automobiles while demolishing historic quarters of the city center is a common practice seen through the Turkish Modernization process. This implementation of the roads introduces apartments to city which act as barrier or threshold between the historic parts of the city. Most of the vernacular civic architecture left over behind this modern barrier and lose their charm as they get older waiting to be demolished. In Develi Cumhuriyet Street also separates two historic neighbourhoods İzmirli -which has known as a Turkish settlement and Everek -which has known as an Armenian settlement. Parallel to Heidegger’s bridge analogy in his famous text Building, dwelling, thinking the street considered as the river flowing between the banks A bridge-like superstructure is proposed in this project to overcome both visible and invisible barriers and to draw attention to eroding vernacular settlements. The bridge revives an old street not just as a transit pass but inhabiting spaces for exhibition, library and study as it flows in respect with its surrounding. Cross laminated timber and PV patterned ETFE combined to create a light weight non-dominant structure and reed is used to create partition and shading control. Animation based computational method is used create the flow structure as reinterpreting the vernacular streets of Develi.
