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The Study of Derinkuyu Underground City in Cappadocia Located in Pyroclastic Rock Materials

NÝVLT, Vladimír, Josef MUSÍLEK, Jiří ČEJKA and Ondrej STOPKA

Basic information

Original name

The Study of Derinkuyu Underground City in Cappadocia Located in Pyroclastic Rock Materials

Name in Czech

Studie Derinkuyu podzemní město v Kappadokii nacházející se v pyroklastický sedimentech

Authors

NÝVLT, Vladimír (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Josef MUSÍLEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jiří ČEJKA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Ondrej STOPKA (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Netherlands, World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering-Architecture-Urban Planning Symposium 2016 (WMCAUS 2016), p. 2253-2258, 6 pp. 2016

Publisher

Elsevier Ltd.

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Proceedings paper

Field of Study

20101 Civil engineering

Country of publisher

Netherlands

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

Publication form

printed version "print"

RIV identification code

RIV/75081431:_____/16:00000886

Organization unit

Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice

ISSN

Keywords (in Czech)

Podzemní město; tufy; kaverny; infrastruktura

Keywords in English

underground city; tuffs; caverns; infrastructure

Tags

Changed: 2/1/2017 16:43, Hana Dlouhá

Abstract

V originále

Its aim is to provide a case study of the historical underground city built for up to 20 thousand people. This is a very specific, building-urban concept that is tied to the extraction of tuff rock building materials. These pyroclastic material ejected volcano in contact with Anatolian and Arabian tectonic plates. For the construction of the city were used exceptional boundary conditions. It is a fact that we have easily extractable building material which is self-supporting, and he does not need additionally reinforced. It means that these soft and stable rocks allowed the creation of large cavern system with a complete infrastructure that needed this underground city. It was placed in it both the living area and warehouse, educational, religious, wells, ventilation systems or stables for animals. There were in the in Cappadocia region up to 36 cities. The exact number depends on the classification criteria that were used. © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Peer-review under responsibility of the organizing committee of WMCAUS 2016