Dr. Sarah Breen Lovett
University of Newcastle, Australia
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View All Publications6 December 2019 in Architectural Science Review
Journal Article
DKDavid Kroll
David KrollSarah Breen Lovett
Carlos Jimenez-BescosPCPeter Chisnall
Peter Chisnall
MAMathew Aitchison
Mathew Aitchison
Building performance simulation tools such as the Passive House Planning Package (PHPP) can be invaluable for improving energy-efficiency in housing design. However, achieving improved energy performance is also a sociotechnical issue, and how this is dealt with during the architectural design process seems less well studied. This collaborative design research project for a low-energy prefab house with an industry partner, a manufacturer of Structural Insulated Panels (SIP), is used as a case study to show that it is possible to achieve high energy performance while addressing specific socio-technical concerns within an Australian volume homebuilding market. A key issue that emerged in this project was the perceived tension between passive design expectations in Australia and those promoted through the Passive House software tool.
22 November 2024
Book Chapter
Sarah Breen LovettCFCathy Fitzgerald
Cathy Fitzgerald
HGHarrison Gardner
Harrison Gardner
DMDuncan Maxwell
Duncan Maxwell
NPNikos Patedakis
Nikos Patedakis
LWLucy Weir
Lucy Weir
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This chapter explores a speculative architectural process called Fast Slow. The aim of the Fast Slow process is not to create a new type of architecture as a product, but to create a new type of process for making architecture, examining the interconnectivity between personal and planetary well-being and the potential alternative political realities that may arise from this. The Fast Slow process proposes to combine Fast prefabricated architecture and Slow mindful DIY earth-building techniques with well-being practices. Fast Slow was initially conceived by author Dr Sarah Breen Lovett, and following a year of practice-based research, funded by the Irish Arts Council Architecture Bursary, this chapter develops several dimensions of the conceptual framework, through engagement with multiple practitioners as co-authors on this chapter. Following a literature review to outline the initial conceptual background of Fast Slow, a series of topics will be focused on, with different academics and practitioners. These cover areas such as the historical context of such a process, how it relates to prefabricated architecture, implications for DIY homemakers, transformative learning potentials, philosophical frameworks, impact upon well-being and potential to create alternative political realities. <!----> <!----> <!----> <!---->
1 January 2018
Book Chapter
Sarah Breen LovettThere can be a dualism falsely perceived in the famous essay by Walter Benjamin, which indicates that we experience art in a state of concentration an Flow combines cutting-edge scholarship with practitioner perspectives to address the concept of ‘flow’ and how it connects interiors, landscapes and buildings, expanding on traditional notions of architectural prominence. Contributors explore the transitional and intermediary relationships between inside/outside. Through a range of case studies, authors extend the notion of flow beyond the western industrialised world and embrace a wider geography while engaging with the specificity of climate and place. Accompanied by stunning colour illustration and photography, Flow brings together historical, theoretical and practice-based approaches to consider themes of nature, mobility, continuity and frames.
Journal Article
Sarah Breen LovettThis paper investigates how architectural theories from the Bauhaus in the 1920s have the opportunity to influence approaches to wellbeing through the built environment today. Through a literature review, the study examines work and writings by primarily Hungarian artist László Moholy-Nagy and German architect Siegfried Ebeling, as well as their contemporaries and predecessors at the Bauhaus. The research identifies a gap in architectural history where past architectural theories and practices have been underexplored in relation to wellbeing, particularly in early modernist discourse. By analyzing Moholy-Nagy and Ebeling writings, this paper reveals how their work prefigures and expands contemporary concerns in wellness design. The key finding is: in the examined works there are clear links between metaphysical thinking, environmental conditions, construction innovation and wellbeing. This study contributes to architectural discourses by: firstly proposing that metaphysically informed design thinking can offer valuable insights for architectural practices aiming to enhance occupant wellbeing; secondly, recontextualizing historical ideas within present-day design challenges, and thirdly offering future research directions for developing understandings of wellbeing in relation to architecture.
About Me
Dr Sarah Breen Lovett is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Architecture and Built Environment, engaging in practice-led, industry-collaborating and socially-engaged research projects. Across all of these modes of engagement, Sarah focuses on interconnectivity between self, community, built and landscaped environments through a combination of earth building, prefabricated architecture, wellbeing and eco-social practices.
Sarah's architectural research began following her architectural and interior design career which spanned 10 years on numerous residential, commercial, and industrial projects in Sydney and London. Experience with Industry-collaborating pre-fabricated research has been with a number of Tier 1-3 Industry Partners, Peak bodies, Government bodies, Educational Institutions and SME’s. This has been through her roles as: Engagement & Education Leader at Building 4.0 CRC, Lecturer and Lab Manger at Future Building Initiative, MADA Monash University, as well as Post-doctoral Researcher and Lab Manager of the Innovation in Applied Design Lab at The University of Sydney.
Eco-Social research projects have been carried out through the creation and curation of many regional contemporary art exhibitions and performances focused on environmental and socially engaged practices.These were held on Gadigal, Wiradjuri, Dharug and Gundungurra Countries.
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