Not the classic camping tents, but tents suspended like drops from the branches of trees. The Dutch sculptor and designer Dré Wapenaar designed them.
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Not the classics camping tents, but hanging curtains like drops from the branches of trees. The Dutch sculptor and designer conceived them Dré Wapenaar.
As he himself says, “the story of my tents began with Treetents, originally designed for Road Alert Group, in England. This group of activists was fighting against excessive road construction through the forests. During their protest, they hid and lived among the trees to fight as long as possible against violence. The Treetents offered a comfortable place for them to stay during their time in the woods and thus prevent trees from being felled".
Wapenaar treehouse tents consist of one steel structure wrapped in canvas and measures four meters high with a diameter of almost 3 meters. The interior features a spacious wooden bed platform and a large round mattress that can accommodate two adults and two children. Every "Drop" hangs directly on the branch of the tree. An idea reminiscent of Cocoon, the spherical tent for sleeping in trees, although these are particular treehouse remember in form the drops of dew. According to Wapenaar, “the shape of these tents developed naturally when I hung one of these circular platforms with a rope on the side of a tree. My inspiration for the shape was not the dewdrop. Form followed function “.
The Dutch designer has been building tents for 15 years and each with the particularity of not being a simple tent, but a metaphor for a stay in contact with nature without affecting it even visually. Tents or places of refuge, in short, able to give unprecedented sensory experiences.
Over the course of his career, Wapenaar has built a number of shelters and structures in numerous natural places and urban settings. The first tent built dates back to 1993 and was called Family Tent, a real house with fabric walls and a room for the parents placed in the center and surrounded by rooms for the children.
This decidedly green idea is also used to spend quiet evenings being lulled by tree branches. It is possible to spend an evening among the evergreen plants at the Hertshoorn campsite, in the Netherlands, where the Treetents are available for rent over the course of five months of the year.
Federica Vitale
Read also:
- Cocoon, the spherical tent for sleeping in the trees
- Tentsile: the hanging tent a bit of a hammock, a bit of a tree house
- The tree house ... it's a nest
- ErlebNest, the minimalist tree house without walls
- MirrorCube: the turnkey transparent tree house
