{"id":2170,"date":"2025-07-04T09:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T09:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diamondstatemanagement.com\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2025-07-05T15:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T15:15:21","slug":"780-leftover-baguettes-turn-into-public-pavilion-by-mero-studios-in-montpellier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.diamondstatemanagement.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/04\/780-leftover-baguettes-turn-into-public-pavilion-by-mero-studios-in-montpellier\/","title":{"rendered":"780 leftover baguettes turn into public pavilion by MERO studios in montpellier"},"content":{"rendered":"

MERO Studios’ Paysage De Pain reflects on themes of food waste<\/h2>\n

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Paysage de Pain is a public<\/a><\/strong> installation built from 780 salvaged baguettes, designed by MERO Studios in collaboration with the Montpellier-based nonprofit Pain de L\u2019Espoir. Set in a sunlit courtyard in the H\u00f4tel de Lunas during the 2025 Festival des Architectures Vives in Montpellier, the pavilion explores the potential of food<\/a><\/strong> waste, specifically surplus bread, as a spatial and sensory material.<\/p>\n

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In France<\/a><\/strong>, bread is essential to daily life, yet its abundance often leads to waste. According to a 2018 study by ADEME (the French Environment and Energy Management Agency), 11% of bread from bakeries is rejected for sale. Of this unsold bread, 15% is donated, 25% repurposed as animal feed, and 60% destroyed. Paysage de Pain transforms this symbol of waste into an immersive architectural experience. The installation<\/a><\/strong> explores gluttony not as excess, but as a lens for sustainable reinvention.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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all images by Paul Kozlowski<\/a><\/p>\n

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Public pavilion repurposes hundreds of leftover baguettes<\/h2>\n

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The installation invites visitors to reflect on themes of gluttony and excess. The structure is a dialogue between indulgence and the urgency of environmental responsibility. 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, developed by MERO Studios’ designers<\/a><\/strong>, foregrounds food waste as a cultural issue, transforming urban excess into a sensory, temporal monument. Here, gluttony becomes a celebration of transformation, an architectural delicacy that invites exploration and reflection on how we consume, discard, and create. 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.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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780 salvaged baguettes form the core structure of Paysage de Pain<\/p>\n

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a spatial installation exploring bread waste as architectural material<\/p>\n

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installed in the courtyard of H\u00f4tel de Lunas for the 2025 Festival des Architectures Vives<\/p>\n

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Paysage de Pain responds to food waste through material reuse<\/p>\n

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bread walls crack and age under summer heat, revealing natural decay<\/p>\n

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visitors navigate dough-scented corridors made from surplus baguettes<\/p>\n

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bread becomes both material and message in this public installation<\/p>\n

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a sensory environment built from one of France\u2019s most iconic staples<\/p>\n

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an ephemeral structure shaped by food, heat, scent, and time<\/p>\n

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bread waste is transformed into a tactile and temporal monument<\/p>\n

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Paysage de Pain reimagines gluttony as a site of transformation<\/p>\n

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project info:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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name:<\/strong>\u00a0Paysage De Pain
\ndesigner: <\/strong>MERO Studios<\/a> | @mero_studios<\/a><\/p>\n

lead<\/strong> designers:<\/strong> Megan Dang, Rose Zhang
\nlocation:<\/strong> Montpellier, France<\/p>\n

photographer:<\/strong> Paul Kozlowski<\/a> | @photoarchitecture.co<\/a><\/p>\n

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edited by: christina vergopoulou | designboom<\/i><\/p>\n

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