• ::The Bittertang Mind::
  • ::The Crop::
  • ::The Harvest::
  • ::Farmers Market::
  • ::Fellow Farmers::
  • ::Fertile Soils::
  • The Bittertang Mind
  • ::Michael Loverich::
  • ::Antonio Torres::
  • Bittertang is a small design farm run by Antonio Torres and Michael Loverich who strive to bring happiness and pleasure into the built world by referencing that pleasurable world which surrounds us. Our work explores multiple themes including pleasure, frothiness, biological matter, animal posturing, babies, sculpture and coloration all unified through bel composto. Our explorations are based in digital and visceral matter with output transitioning between scales and localities leaving our traces of frothy matter in various disciplines. Although trained as architects our prolific interests and methodology associates us closely to the organization of a farm. Bittertang material is breed, coaxed and grown to yield tasty morsels, beautiful new exotic beasts and fertilizer for future growth. Digging deep into the fertile detritus left by thousands of years of human history and artifacts our goal is to add thick rich fodder to contemporary material culture. Welcome to the farm, explore at your own risk and please, pet the animals.
  • :Biological Matter:
  • :Belcomposto:
  • :Frothy Seams:
  • :The Pleasurable:
  • :Animal Posturing:
  • :Coloration:
  • :Sculpture:
  • :Babies:
  • Frothy Seams
  • Frothy seams challenge traditional and contemporary architectonics moving mass and matter away from lines of structural support to zones of transition accumulating matter into frothy masses at seams enhancing belcomposto tendencies.  This reorganization of architectural matter enables various picturesque affects to be produced that operate outside of architectural language.  One can see the nexus of frothiness in the mid 18th century as cloud and putti envy came to the fore producing permanent foam and larval coatings to domestic interiors. The cartouche develops as an architectural portal to fantasy landscapes. It becomes engorged and encrusted accumulating the detritus of the other world in thick undulating rings.