A - The open air and covered swimming pools.
B - Gymnasiums (Squash and badminton salons along with a multi-purpose salon)

The architectural concept of the building originated from the typology of Kerman ancient icehouses, some of which still exist in this region. The masterly deployment of this concept has both generated the possibility of full functional efficiency and compatibility with today’s construction methods and a modern program.

Similar to the spatial configuration of the traditional icehouses, the complex combines an opaque volume (the cone shaped dome) with transparent elements (the wall and the diagonal glazed roof which expands over the pools). The diagonal glazed roof refers to the shadow of the high wall on the ground. The entrance space ties up these two externally different elements to render a congruent internal effect. The high elongated wall that supports the roof of the swimming pool, not only acts as a complementary element to the geometrical configuration starting from the center of the cone, but also after shedding a transparent cover down to the ground, folds its arm in response to the curve of the cone.

The covered and open-air pools are aligned to define a vast surface of water, which is then divided by the transparent diagonal roof.

The significant point is that the spatial purity and wholeness of the internal space has been left undisturbed despite diversity of the required spaces such as dry and wet sauna, massage rooms, gym salon, dressing rooms, showers, services, storage, mechanical room, and water refinery located in the basement, buffet, shop, audience seats, coach room, offices on the ground floor, and a restaurant in the mezzanine looking over the pool.

The external simplicity of the building is also manifest all over the internal space with its highly diverse divisions.