Survey of landscape surrounded by the Göreme and Kılıçlar valleys

A naturalized urban landscape The research unit from the Department of Architecture of the University of Florence1 has focused its studies on the digital documentation of the rock-cut heritage of the Cappadocian habitat in the area adjoining the Göreme Open Air Museum (Açık Hava Müzesi). The empathy of the landscape2 results not from a clichéd romanticism but from this natural artistic setting, the symbiotic result of the sculptural properties of the volcanic rocks, of human skills, and of a slow and inexorable process of erosion, which have combined to create this marvellous naturalized landscape over thousands of years. This landscape reveals living spaces or realities carefully concealed in the interior of the rock that are occasionally exposed through rock falls caused by imprudent use and by natural processes.