Mini Panda BT Sculpture

Alexandra Singer-Bieder is French; she met Sofia Bennani, originally from Morocco, in Paris during their studies at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture where they received their Master of Architecture in June 2013 and their Architectural License in December 2014. At school, they work on diverse architectural and urban projects, in France, Germany and Mongolia. Their studies are punctuated by internships and exchange programs, in France, Morocco, United States and United Kingdom. In 2012 they start developing an innovative process currently in a patent filing, surrounded by professional engineers, lighting experts and specialists in robotic: the Straw-k was born! Passionate by Architecture but also design, they are interested in the essence of any project: matter. Through advanced experimentations in terms of structure, fabrication tools and light, they imagine an assembling process able to transform plastic pipes to create diverse shapes. They are improving the process since then, in the field of interior architecture, furniture design and recently, Art. In June 2013 they won the Special Prize from the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture for the singularity of their innovative process, advanced research and the ephemeral architectural installation they built on the school bleachers. In 2014 they won the Young Talent Prize for the Africa Design Award and their innovative process was finalist for the international Tex-Fab Plasticity competition and exhibited during Acadia 2014 in Los Angeles in October 2014 and in Houston in April 2015. Together, Sofia and Alexandra are Straw-k and they created the Straw-k’Art, a brand new concept in the art field.