PROLOGUE

Once, every city was made of 2 substances, a real substance, and a virtual one. 

 

The real parts were where living activities took place naturally and organically, with all imaginable aspects of economic life. The virtual parts, on the other hand, were over-planned, restricted to a limited spectrum of activities and demographics. These were 2 antagonists of urban dynamics. These 2 realities, antagonists of one another, existed simultaneously in any single piece of a city. By living the real activities, a city operated in its Real reality, and by the virtual activities, in its Virtual reality. 

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Oftentimes, architecture has been the instrument of such a process. To obtain such a virtual certificate, architecture there needs dressing, either with a polished physical case or polished narratives. 

 

This depressive process is an old phenomenon: urban condensation of inequality. We can imagine a desirable alternative to this urban despair by taking back this physical space from the virtual reality on injecting in it a Real reality, the ferment of any organic part of cities. Why should high-esteemed sites be allergic to daily human lives? 

 

By creating a parallel hub of activities underground, the place’s historicity stays intact while being a part of everyday life, making it available to a much broader sense of democracy and freedom than it previously captured.

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ÉPILOGUE

For millennials, a city has been the engine for the condensation of social inequality, if not born out of this condensation. Unless in a city like Assault where, by nature, no such separation is conceptually possible, we can consider the possible extermination of this inequality. 

 

Assault isn’t another utopian tale about a depressive desire. It is a simulation of social and urbanistic logic, whose physical possibility is unquestionable. Fortunately, its realisation requires no more than a minimal degree of critical thinking and a committed will for change. 

 

The total construction of Assault is totally imaginable and organisable. It can be applied in various ways across the globe, namely at smaller scales, different typologies could be constructed separately at different locations. With such a social and urbanistic principle at hand, new dynamics of social urbanism can be achieved where such notions as equity don’t exist, since there would be no such notion as inequity.