Serasa Beach, Brunei Youth & Community Led Design Workshop

Arkitrek Serasa Beach, Brunei

Youth & Community Led Sustainable Design
11th – 30th July 2012

Arkitrek is offering places on a participatory design-build workshop in Brunei this July.

Serasa beach is a popular recreational spot to the north of the city of Bandar Seri Begawan, in Brunei Darussalam. A comprehensive re-development masterplan is in the pipeline for this manmade spit of land. The Serasa Beach Arkitrek will be an opportunity for young Bruneians and stakeholders such as hawker stall operators to have their say in how Serasa Beach should be developed.

The project will involve; surveying, brief writing, stakeholder interviews, master planning, and a design-build element. The built element will be an iconic structure, exhibition space and rallying point, something tangible to give identity to the process of youth and community engagement.

The Arkitrek project team will comprise enthusiastic high-school students, university architecture students & graduates. Guidance will be provided by professional teachers, architects and engineers. Qualities we are looking for in participants are; creativity, intuition and self motivation. Sketching, model-making and construction skills would be a bonus.

Price

Course Only – BND1,400 (excluding accommodation – suitable for local Bruneians)
Course + Accommodation – BND 2,200 (suitable for international participants)
‘Course Only’ option includes lunches.
‘Accommodation’ includes all meals. International participants will be accommodated in a local guesthouse/apartment for masterplanning stage and during the build stage will camp on the beach.

Payment by Paypal or direct bank transfer. Contact us for bank details if you want to make a direct bank transfer.

Note that the Paypal price includes 3.75% ‘tax’ to cover Paypal transaction fees. The Paypal cost is quoted in Singapore Dollars because Paypal offer no Brunei Dollar option. The Brunei Dollar is pegged 1:1 to the Singapore Dollar and Singapore Dollars are legal tender in Brunei.

Application Procees

Due to the short notice on this workshop, there will be no formal application process. You will be asked to complete a booking form with personal details and make full payment following the instructions above. That’s it. This program is confirmed to go ahead and is not dependent on minimum numbers of participants.

Click here for Arkitrek Terms & Conditions.
Click here for Arkitrek Booking Form.

If you would like to talk to a real person call our office number +60(088)263009 during office hours Malaysia time or email us using the Contact us form.

cover photo courtesy of plastic fanantic

For inspiration here’s a slide show from a previous Arkitrek design-build workshop on Mantanani Island, Sabah.