Tenda 2.0 at Archifest 2022

Tenda 2.0 was displayed as the “Justice Pavilion” at Archifest 2022: The Order of Love. As a fully off grid habitation concept, The tenda is displayed outside the URA Centre, at the corner of Kadayanallur Street and Maxwell Road, and is fully self supporting without tapping onto surrounding infrastructure.

An ecologically-empathetic habitat, constructed from upcycled materials - Tendas are designed to be self-sustaining in terms of water, energy and waste. A modular, deployable concept allows Tenda to activate arcadian localities with the ultimate aim of generating measurable, beneficial social and environmental impacts through ecological workshop outreach and material research.

The first prototype was designed as a retreat with a mission to inspire and empower travellers in the exploration of new ways of creating and thinking; a discursive provocation of how architecture and design can make off-grid living a compelling reality. Income generated from the Tenda currently deployed at Soori Bali is reinvested into the immediate social and environmental contexts - funding existing programmes such as the Rice for Plastics initiative, a cultural dance school, coastal cleanups and a turtle rescue-and-release program. 

Founder Soo K . Chan’s vision is holistic, and reaches beyond design, “the Tenda represents an attitude towards community-building, while in harmony with nature" - designed with scalability both in terms of architecture and social outreach in mind, future iterations of Tenda has the potential to deploy as other programs such as community spaces, research centers, or mobile libraries, for which talks have already begun with an international organisation.