Ice Cave Presales Office

Within the architectural phenomenology of Fatemeh Salehi Amiri's Ice Cave Presales Office, the curved white envelope functions as a threshold archetype, transforming the commercial transaction into a ritualized passage through space that activates unconscious associations with sacred caves, maternal enclosure, and transformative journey. The chromatic opposition between the white synthetic surfaces and the verdant living wall encodes a fundamental dialectic between culture and nature, the technological and the organic, while their harmonious coexistence within a single interior suggests integration and reconciliation rather than conflict. The cave as archetypal form carries profound symbolic resonance across human cultures, traditionally associated with initiation, rebirth, protection, and access to hidden knowledge, meanings that transfer to this commercial context by elevating the act of property acquisition into something approaching pilgrimage or revelation. The vertical garden operates symbolically as an axis mundi connecting earthly and celestial realms, its vital greenery signifying growth, prosperity, and the life force that potential occupants might seek in their future dwelling. Numerological significance may be discerned in the serial repetition of vault structures that suggest infinite progression and multiplicity, while the central positioning of the solitary figure activates archetypal imagery of the individual contemplating vast space, evoking romantic sublime traditions and existential meditation. The smooth, flowing surfaces without hard angles or abrupt transitions communicate safety, comfort, and nurturing enclosure, qualities traditionally associated with the womb and with spaces of healing and restoration. Zenithal light descending from above carries long-established symbolic associations with divine presence, enlightenment, and spiritual illumination, transforming the ceiling apertures into secular equivalents of oculi in sacred architecture. The material contrast between cold synthetic surfaces and living vegetation creates a tactile narrative about human capacity to shape environment while remaining connected to natural systems, suggesting that technology and ecology need not exist in opposition.

Ice Cave is a showroom for a client who needed a space with unique quality. In the meantime, capable of showcasing Various properties of the Tehran Eye Project. According to the project's function, an attractive yet neutral atmosphere for showing the objects and events as needed. Using minimal surface logic was the design idea. An integrated mesh surface is spread across all space. The space required for different uses is formed based on foreign forces in the up and down direction exerted on the surface. For fabrication, this surface has been divided into 329 panels.