Paysage de Pain is an installation created by MERO Studios, featuring 780 salvaged baguettes. Located at Hôtel de Lunas during the 2025 Festival des Architectures Vives in Montpellier, the pavilion addresses food waste, specifically surplus bread. A 2018 study indicates that significant amounts of bakery bread are discarded. The installation invites visitors to engage with the themes of gluttony and environmental responsibility through its design, which turns waste into an immersive experience, prompting reflection on consumption and the importance of resource care.
Paysage de Pain transforms this symbol of waste into an immersive architectural experience. The installation explores gluttony not as excess, but as a lens for sustainable reinvention.
Visitors are invited to move through dough-scented walls that cracked and aged in the summer heat, highlighting the tension between nourishment and discard.
The project foregrounds food waste as a cultural issue, transforming urban excess into a sensory, temporal monument.
In the spirit of the festival, Paysage de Pain is not only a feast for the senses but also a call to savor resources with care and ingenuity.
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