This project in photos!
In 2012, Pierre-André Aubert came up with a revolutionary idea: to build a solar oven powered directly by the sun’s rays, concentrated thanks to an innovative parabolic dish. This revolutionary process will enable them to save 50% on energy.
After a meticulous design phase, the solar cooker was finally manufactured and initially housed as a “guinguette” in a converted shipping container.
Later, the acquisition of a plot of land in Château-Gombert (13th arrondissement) enabled them to see further ahead. And finally, thanks to a series of fund-raising events, they raised over €2.2 million to build a fully-fledged bioclimatic restaurant “powered by solar energy”.
3 seasons of tests later on the Château Gombert technology park, a bioclimatic building surrounded by an edible landscape and ecologically exemplary has seen the light of day: hemp concrete walls, wooden framework, rendering made from the site’s earth… it’s a whole innovative and environmentally-friendly approach that has come to fruition.
This avant-garde restaurant is committed to being “much more than just a place to eat: it’s a genuine research and experimentation laboratory for the food of the future, which inspires and pollinates its environment”.
Because the concept doesn’t stop at solar energy: they are also working on reusing waste water to water the plants, using phytodepuration. They are also creating a small methanisation plant to produce and use biogas from organic waste… something to broaden our horizons!
