What humans can do with anything on their hands these days, the ideas and concepts amaze me. Well some may be blatantly stupid in others’ eye, but what we see in this article will make you nagging like a kid why you weren’t there.

Astounding cocoons made only of tape float in mid-air, capable supporting more than your average tree house.

The designers from Viennese/Croatian design collective For Use/Numen, uses only packing tape to create mammoth, self-supporting cocoons that visitor could jumble inside and explore. The art, which look like the work of horrifyingly large arachnids, grew in scale and scope as the year progressed, first deployed inside a small Croatian gallery, then an abandoned attic during October’s Vienna Design Week.

“The installation is based on an idea for a dance performance in which the form evolves from the movement of the dancers between the pillars,” explains For Use’s Christoph Katzler. “The dancers are stretching the tape while they move, so the resulting shape is a recording of the choreography.”

The installation’s over-the-top theatricality comes easily to the collective, who design sets as well as furniture for the likes of Moroso and Element. In the coming months, more places will have these sticky tape-webs. The center of Frankfurt in September and a five-star design hotel on the Croatian coast is impending. Now, let the photos do the talking.

[Fast Company via Gizmodo]