Going Places - Malaysia Airlines in-flight Magazine September 2011 Edition Text by Richard Nelson Sokial Photos by Richard Nelson Sokial and Rabani Ayub (scroll down for the Arkitrek bit) Related posts %RELATEDPOSTS%

Ian Hall, founder of Arkitrek talks to BFM presenter Freda Lui about the Arkitrek Camp and his philosophy of working responsibly in Malaysia's natural areas and building capacity for rural communities in Borneo to implement a sustainable design.

Text and photos by Ian Hall Our Kindergarten on Mantanani Island has come on a treat these last 4 months thanks to the dedication of our Volunteer Michelle Martin and her team from Camp Borneo and the Mantanani community. We're just about to get the roof superstructure up and here is Michelle posing with a fine set of dwangs on her last day on the island. The next stage is to put the roof on and for this Michelle has risen to the challenge of communicating structural principles of a 'collar rafter' and the relative merits...

The Star, Malaysia Saturday July 16, 2011 Designs that matter By LEONG SIOK HUI Read the original article A team of budding architects and design professionals picks up construction know-how and ruminates on why design matters at a design-and-build camp in Sabah. After seven years of slogging in architecture school, followed by 2½ years of designing building after building, David Thomas Arnott was on the verge of burning out. “You spend so much time in university working on amazing projects. Then you start working...

Text: by Ian Hall Photos: by Ian Hall and Fauzan Aris I’m not much of a beach person, much to my girlfriend’s disgust. Throw us onto a tropical island and she’ll head for the sand with her sarong and sun cream and I’ll head inland with my binoculars and mosquito repellent. Pulah Babi Tengah (Middle Pig Island!) off the coast of Johor, Malaysia used to be a refugee camp run by UNHCR back in the 70’s. I’m not sure how idyllic a refugee camp could be but former interns, mostly Vietnamese, now Australian, seem...