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ad+hoc design lab. is a theoretically-born team of three multi-disciplinary senior architecture students at their 7th semester in the studio, as a part of the curriculum, for the urban design concept. 

ad+hoc lab. as its etymology initiates, aims to provide adhoc responses, with sustainable and circular economy approaches. Its experimental progress is motivated by the style of Ecole des Beaux-Arts, "en-Charette"; which is working until the very last minute to finish the projects, detailing and perfecting continuously.

1** The first project of the ad+hoc team was a scientific research project, on architecture and environment, focusing on sustainable building technologies, 1:1 scale 2 built-models of roof applications are continuously measured and graphicised by the program. The project is titled “Comparing the Surface Temperatures and Water Retention Capacity of the Vegetated Roof and Gravel Roof Applications ”.  Further details of the project can be found in the 'selected projects' sections.

2** The second project of the team was an urban design project at Samsun, Türkiye; approximately 200.000 sqm, nearside the Mert River and its delta through the sea&harbour, also near Piazza AVM and the main industrial zone of the city. 

Samsun is a multicultural city with lost opportunities, in history it always guested the best innovations and events; the most important port city, the first tobacco factory, Samsun Fair, the first industrial railway network, etc. However, it always missed those and therefore the concept of the project was to re-achieve these qualities. The idea gets its essence from the most-heard answers of the citizens; the loss of hybrid spaces and tobacco production culture. Therefore, whilst urban design is analysed and systemised for the citizens from the good environment theory of Gehl, L. (2001), the sustainable wetland bioswale park of the riverside provides a hybrid three-dimensional neighbourhood and rehabilitation for the shift between the existing Piazza AVM and industry zone. The park was re-functioned as an urban port and circular economy hub, dominated by the production line on the left of the site, where an elevated railway and tobacco ring carry employees and tobacco leaves to the urban factory to proceed. The laminal program with the mindset of not only site but anti-zoning the time, allows to city inside with the city loop discovered in the analyses, a night-drift; that requires the spaces to be timeless, day or night safe and on-program shift, not job-to-home shifts.