Idea
Ice can melt.
Right in front of our eyes, the cold, dead crystals can be transformed to water, one of the principal elements of life.
And that is exactly what happens in Hans Christian Andersens Fairytale
The Snow Queen.
Life had become cold calculations and deadly misconceptions.
Then the little girl Gerda enters the ice palace where Kay is imprisoned.
And the miracle happens:
Gerda cries and her tears melt the insane splinters in his heart.

Form
The Snow Queens Ice Palace is built in the shape of a triangular maze.
The maze is a place you can enter but not leave, thus being a symbol of a prison.
The goblins mirror is made of bluish ice.
The mirror is broken and the splinters set into the walls of the ice palace.
When spring comes, the splinters of the mirror will melt before the walls of the Ice Palace
(Because the ice that makes up the splinters contains a dye).
When the splinters are melted, it is a sign, that the power of the Snow Queen is broken.

When melting the geometrical forms of the Ice Palace will be transformed into ever changing series of organic shapes.

During the nights the Ice Palace will be lighted from inside and be visible from the Square in front of the Winter Palace.

Situation
The Snow Queens Ice Palace was designed to be situated in the courtyard of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, but after hard negosiations with with the State Hermitage Museum it failed to be realised.