Maremat & Me'mari-e Iran

Built technology in traditional buildings depends on different factors including local characteristics such as climatic conditions, and architect's capabilities and expertise. To recognize built technologies in the past in traditional buildings will manifest some part of feautures related to local architecture. Through elapsing time, replacement of technology and advancement in costruction  methods, the traditional construction methods of buildings are forgotten that through documenting these methods, we might take an effective step towards preserving these methods.Built technology of ice houses in diverse cities is directly influenced by architects capabilities.

Researchers have more studied on historical aspects, performance way of ice- houses, their constituents and/or some case form of ice houses. This reserch, for the first time, deals with recognising different methods for making ice houses, comparing them and documenting methods. The data collection method in the study is a combination of library and field ones. Having dealt with traditional experts of Iran eastern and southeastern cities respecting ice- houses construction and modeling costruction stages, the methods kinds will be analysed.

The article intends to examine local architects capability in process of making traditional ice houses in Iran's western and southwestern cities. Through the conducted analyses, it became obvious that local architects' skill and capability will be manifested in built technology of ice-house different parts, especially in its dome ,the execution way of dome arch, its adobes arrangements and shading wall consistency and they also specify too many different regions in built technolory