Cappadocian Volcanic Province is characterized by several ignimbritic eruptions that extend large areas with different properties such as thickness and welding. One of the most distinguished features of these ignimbrites is the development of fairy chimneys which are erosional landforms of ignimbrites developed in certain localities within the Cappadocia.
Fairy chimneys formed at different ignimbrites have different shape and size. Both geological and geomorphologic factors played roles on the formation of the fairy chimneys. Evolution of the chimneys occurs in two stages. The first stage is the formation of a suitable surface over which the fairy chimneys are formed. Three main factors that control the formation this surface are degree of welding, thickness of the ignimbrite and amount of topographic slope. In the second stage several other factors play roles to shape the fairy chimneys. (Sayin, 2008)
Fairy chimneys are the morphic bodies of nature, as the nature has created another nature inhabited by human in this region over the time; i.e. they have been formed as a consequence of severe wind and water erosion over long period and people turned them into living spaces by digging in.
According to the morphic resonance theory, the things in nature not only formed by energy, also habits affect the form of nature. Memory is inherent in nature. Most of the so-called laws of nature are more like habits. Through morphic resonance, formative causal influences pass through or across both space and time, and these influences are assumed not to fall off with distance in space or time, but they come only from the past. (Sheldrake, 1998) When a new chemical compound is first created it will crystallize slowly, but when other researchers repeat the experiment they find it occurs more quickly.
The idea is to design a feedback mechanism which controls these natural phenomena. This mechanism will construct 21st century’s morphic bodies as living spaces by using the memory of new habits occurring in terms of changing environmental conditions in nature which exists in Cappadocia. The project will discuss controlling the nature by using technology to form new natural forms. It will also explore historical and cultural diversity occurring over the time in this region.
Cappadocian Volcanic Province is characterized by several ignimbritic eruptions that extend large areas with different properties such as thickness and welding. One of the most distinguished features of these ignimbrites is the development of fairy chimneys which are erosional landforms of ignimbrites developed in certain localities within the Cappadocia.
Fairy chimneys formed at different ignimbrites have different shape and size. Both geological and geomorphologic factors played roles on the formation of the fairy chimneys. Evolution of the chimneys occurs in two stages. The first stage is the formation of a suitable surface over which the fairy chimneys are formed. Three main factors that control the formation this surface are degree of welding, thickness of the ignimbrite and amount of topographic slope. In the second stage several other factors play roles to shape the fairy chimneys. (Sayin, 2008)(http://tez2.yok.gov.tr/)
The pictures have taken from http://www.avanosevi.com/tr/kapadokya and http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~bct/ataturk/imagepages/image28.htm
