Project
DoorBeen
Category
Best Project of Public Building or Facility
About the project (provided by the applicant)
A structure serving as a support for outdoor/highway surveillance cameras,
Striving to immerse itself in the artistic realm;
Inherently paradoxical.
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.
Location
Iran
Project design year
2024
Project website
https://babakabdolghafari.com/work/doorbeen/
Extra visual materials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbrBoY1fGno&list=PLiv-Rp7K5jxM5CDuZE7a6ttvgKZDT0z2O
Applicant
Babak Abdolghafari Atelier
Babak Abdolghafari Atelier, based in Iran, since 2015, pursuing an independent path in design & construction.
Its theoretical approach rests on a key question: is architectural knowledge result of the interplay between “human” & “land”? The land must be sought in all its visible & hidden forces, and the human is revealed through the culture, memory & lived experience.
Authors of the project
Natalie Ishoonejadian, Mona Afrazi, Armin Arefi Nik, Fatemeh Shahrestani, Parsa Movassaghi
Visualization
Babak Abdolghafari Atelier
Status of the project
Under construction
