Ledras (Ledra Street): Discovering it’s Visible and Invisible Multiple Layers

Abstract

Today, historic preservation and re-use of historic sites are common techniques in urban development process of cities with rich historical background, which creates many contradictions and architecturally aesthetical problems. Architects should try to find ways to understand the problems underneath them and suggest a technique with a continuous outcome. Researching the multiple layers of this study area will help to discover the time-space relationship of the existing environment.Prof. Dr. Semra Aydinli states at her presentation in Boston “Enmeshed experience motivates us to grasp the multi-sensory qualities of the existing environment. Every place that has specific spatiality in Istanbul establishes a different integrity for production of sensation because of its major changes in life and enmeshed experience.” [1]The disconnection between heritage and contemporary leads this research to search for possible ways to maintain the environmental value of the Cyprus’ architecture in terms of quality, continuity, and aesthetical experience. Every historic building, their surrounding, and society carry its own has its own unique spatiality in its context. Therefore it is inevitable to not to come across with enmeshed experiences through a detailed research at any of the historic quarters of Cyprus. Places contains enmeshed experiences and cultural codes, with the intention that in this research the chosen method is the bodily experiencing to point out the identity of the area to identify a new conception of sense and to produce new events. Bodily experience of Ledra is supported with photography, and maps aesthetical value and identity. The island’s built environment is rich in variety and each nation.