The cloche: Can we revive the traditional greenhouse?

Plants under cover – Tënda

Trebo Matthias
Jonathan Zwiessler

Tënda is a cloche developed for the propagation of plants in allotment gardens. Often there is not enough space in these gardens for big greenhouses and the gardener cannot be present everyday to regulate the temperature manually. The cloches form allows an automatic air circulation inside the cloche, so the gardener just has to take care of the watering. The vent is integrated in the down bent glass so that strong rain and wind don’t affect the young plants. Manufactured in premium glass rather than in plastic it doesn’t become shabby over the time. What we as designers think is an advantage of our object is, that the size allows you to really grow an profitable amount of plants. Tënda offers a compromise between a big greenhouse and a mini greenhouse, just used inside. So it doesn’t matter wether you have an whole allotment garden or just a small front yard, Tënda is an easy-care solution for everyone who wants to increase his vegetable production or just move his carefully raised scion from the inside to the outside.

A project made in the course

Planting. Tending. Picking.

Tools for Gardeners The word culture is derived from early farming, from agriculture and horticulture. It is based on those prehistoric activities that humans had to carry out to survive and to make the Earth their property. Agriculture is still very much practised in the same spirit, but today it is rational, mechanised and automated by using the latest digital technology. The culture of gardening, on the other hand, is the result of a human passion to create spaces with plants that are both aesthetically real and illusionary.
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