A MOBILE CHICKEN COOP
LUCAS MUÑOZMISTERIOSO OBJETO RESIDENCY
SEPTEMBER 2023
Lucas Muñoz is a Madrid-based designer whose multidisciplinary practice spans furniture, experimental objects, installations and contextual projects. His work explores the role of design within different social, cultural and environmental contexts, often combining design with video, sound and temporary interventions.
During his ACME residency, Un Gallinero Móvil, Lucas worked with Joan Vellvé to develop a prototype for a mobile chicken coop for CREA, a regenerative and biodynamic farm in Madrid. Designed to house a flock of Castilian hens, the structure is intended to move across the land, allowing the chickens to feed on weeds and insects while naturally fertilising and contributing to the health of the soil.
The prototype brought together a wide range of reclaimed and readily available materials, combining a lightweight steel structure with insulated panels, advertising tarpaulins, mesh, corrugated sheet and timber. Mobility was integrated into the design through a wheel and trailer-hitch system, allowing the coop to be relocated as part of the farm's cultivation cycle.
Materials: steel tubes and profiles, insulated backpacks, wheels, Geopannel insulation, advertising tarpaulins, wire mesh, corrugated sheet, pine wood, wheel axle, trailer hitch.
Location: ACME; CREA Biodynamic farm, Algete
Year: 2023
Misterioso Objeto was an ACME Estudio residency programme developed between 2022 and 2023, bringing together five creators —nodoCCS, Vicent Orts, Pía Mendaro, Gema FB Martín and Lucas Muñoz— to explore circularity through collective creation.
Each resident was invited to develop a new work using offcuts and surplus materials from ACME's productions, while inheriting a fragment or material from the previous resident. This created a continuous chain of transformation, turning the residency into a collective Cadáver Exquisito in which each work became the starting point for the next.
The programme explored circularity not only as a material practice, but also as a model for shared authorship, collaboration and resourcefulness — recovering materials, tools and existing resources to encourage creative processes that adapt to the world rather than requiring the world to adapt to them.