MO de Movimiento

After 18 months directing a context specific research, designer
Lucas Muñoz has created his largest project. The restaurant
Mo de Movimiento is a compendium of several techniques and
strategies mastered by the author through his career. Ventilation
systems based on terracotta and water are the cooling hearts
of a construction that deploys a complex, yet simple, water
management system. These red clay elements cool down Madrid’s
dry and hot air through an adiabatic exchange of temperature -
in an innovative combination of vernacular knowledge and low
technology, created specifically for this location by Lucas and
his team. Furthermore, the space heats its own water using the
remnant power of its two hand made pizza ovens, there is a
triple filtration of the water supply and, pumped through different
deposits, hands water is reused to flush the toilets as well as rain
water and the remnant from the mentioned terracotta cooling
systems, are driven to feed the garden. Water is a scarce resource
in Madrid, and Lucas’ project for Mo de Movimiento is a design
that counts on every drop for a chain of cooling, cleaning and
gardening functions.

Furthermore, the design of every restaurant element answers to a
process that takes the planet as a stockholder in the negotiations.
Re-cycling, up-cycling or, simply, properly using the right materials
for the right purposes, have been consciously defined for each
intervention. There is a respect to the life cycle of each material
that composes those elements, and this has been the bottom
line from where to create the project. Hence, all elements are
conceived for a life cycle that includes maintenance and repair in
their design, as well as takes decay and degradation as elements
and variables into the design process. The intervention uses aging
as a resource and the space is conceived to evolve into its final
design, allowing nature and human use to be some of the main
actors in its completion - while its audience will be a participant
witness of this evolution.