It would be a flagrant understatement to say that Bittertang builds. More accurately, they inflate, stuff, and smother. The resulting hallucinatory environments resemble a delightful cross between a gastroenterologist's dream and a petting zoo. Oddness aside, Bittertang is pushing the conventions of architecture by creating forms that are at once tectonic, pliable, corporeal, and damn good fun.
'Everyone talks about immersive spaces and a sensorial, visceral approach to architecture, but it's not literal enough,' says Antonio Torres, 33, one of the two founders. 'We are interested in getting architecture to be interactive and tactile,' adds his partner, Michael Loverich, 36.
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