DoorBeen
Babak Abdolghafari Atelier · Iran
Category Winner 2025

Overview
A structure, serving as a support for outdoor/ Highway surveillance cameras, Striving to immerse itself in the artistic realm; Inherently paradoxical.
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Narrative (B)
The object is freezing of time in the intersection of two things: One static and earth-made, in red and gold And the other, free, made of sky, in alabaster and silver.
The column is a pole made of earth Hill-like elegant Like an ant’s nest That emerges from the of the land
/ Forthwith /
The Beam is a white Seemorgh, opening its wings to welcome the beyond world. Its chest leans on top of that hill To bid farewell to the earth And return to the realm of meaning
That hill is a fragment of the Earth The bird, made of sky.
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Narrative (B’)
A more contemplative and hidden part of the question itself is the surveillance of machines (car surveillance camera) over humans. Which, on the surface, seems to be the confrontation of machine (camera) against machine (car), But in reality, it tells the story of humans struggling against humans: One in the position of observer and legislator, at a six-meter level from the ground And the other, a human and a caravan in motion, on the ground The relationship between these two is in a vertical structure, defined in the artificial contractual framework under the name “law”: The converter of “personal desire” to “public good” is essentially the regulator of collective life.
But the main question is:
Once upon a time, the machine was born into the hands of the craftsman, and was itself its agent and cause. But in the contemporary flood of overturns, It has come to a point where the machine (camera) illuminates whether a human is guilty or not In this game, humans become robots in motion, between lines, at a certain speed. Complete superiority of machine over humans?! A human who is the soul of that land And devoid of will!
- Location
- Iran
- Edition
- 2025
- Discipline
- Concept Design
- Category
- Transport & Mobility Concept
Project credits
- Lead Designer
- Babak Abdolghafari
- Team
- Natalie Ishoonejadian, Mona Afrazi, Armin Arefi Nik, Fatemeh Shahrestani, Parsa Movassaghi, Forough Seyyedi
- Photography
- Babak Abdolghafari Atelier




