Fares, KhaledÖzgüven, YektaMutman, Demet2024-07-122024-07-122014Fares, K. (2014). From user to designer: turning an urban edge into an urban catalyst. Özgüven, Y. ve Mutman, D. (ed.). 2014 Istanbul International Architecture and Desing Student Congress içinde (24-25 ss.). İstanbul: Maltepe Üniversitesi.978-975-6760-61-1https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12415/5615The Bourj Hammoud vehicular bridge in Lebanon links Achrafieh to Jdeideh and cuts through the urban adjacency of Bourj Hammoud and Nabaa districts. As such, it stretches over a tensile line of two fundamental magnitudes: the physical or hard infrastructure and the social or soft infrastructure. The bridge highlighted and separated the different ethnicities between the two neighborhoods and therefore acted as a new sub-space or sub-entity imposed by insensible planning schemes supported by political powers. This new concrete layer not only divided the two neighborhoods horizontaIly (left/right), but also cut them vertically (above/beneath)...enAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United Statesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessHard intrastructureSoft intrastructureInhabited bridgeUrban regenerationSociaI segregationMixed-use projectConference Object2524