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Ice Cave Presales Office by Fatemeh Salehi Amiri

Ice Cave Presales Office

Golden A' Design Award Winner 2021

This architectural interior photograph presents a dramatically curved white space with organic, cave-like vaulted ceilings and a prominent living wall of green vegetation. Scanning from the foreground to background, the space unfolds as a series of sweeping arched forms in pristine white that flow continuously from walls into ceiling without visible joints or interruptions. The floor beneath appears as smooth, polished concrete in a cool pale gray, reflecting the ambient light and extending the luminous quality throughout the room. Distributed across this floor surface, approximately five to seven seating elements emerge organically from the ground plane, rendered in similar gray concrete tones, their forms suggesting low cylindrical stools and gentle undulating mounds that invite rest while maintaining the flowing aesthetic vocabulary of the architecture. Moving leftward, a striking vertical surface of dense living vegetation rises from floor to ceiling, its rich green foliage presenting a tapestry of varied leaf shapes and multiple green tones from deep forest to bright spring green, creating a textural contrast like touching cool moss and springy ferns against the smooth manufactured surfaces elsewhere. The ceiling structure consists of multiple repeated vault sections that recede into the distance, each illuminated from above through concealed sources that produce a soft, diffused glow reminiscent of light filtering through translucent ice or cloud cover. Near the center of the composition, a single human figure dressed in dark clothing sits or stands against the living wall, providing crucial scale reference that reveals the generous proportions of the architecture, where the ceiling rises perhaps three to four times human height. The atmosphere suggests a temperature somewhere between cool and comfortable, with the white surfaces evoking freshness while the greenery introduces warmth and vitality.

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.