9 Photos of the One of a Kind Salt Restaurant in Iran

Emtiaz Designing Group, due to the location of natural salt mines and the Salt Lake used for salt extraction which were close to the project location, which is located in Shiraz city, Iran, decided to build the restaurant with the use of powder, rock, and compact layers of salt. The project design started with conducting studies on appropriate type of local salt and its combination with natural gums and following that, the design of the walls, roof, and stairs was performed in order to represent a modern view of salt caves. In the design of the project’s indoor and outdoor walls, creation a sense of spatial coherence,c modern space and at the same time a space close to nature. Walls and the seat platforms, inspired by layers inside salt caves, were designed in a modern sense in a way to be capable of providing kitchen and counter to serve the customers.