Designers/Designers and Consultants Directory

For more than thirty years, the landscape architects at Hord Coplan Macht have been collaborating on healthcare, housing and education projects to create special places for people to live, learn and heal. In all of our work, we strive for the highest quality of design, balancing the pragmatic with the visionary, to provide sustainable, meaningful, and successful environments. Hord Coplan Macht has designed therapeutic, healing and educational gardens for senior housing, assisted living and skilled nursing facilities, hospitals, nature centers, special needs schools and universities. Our landscape architects bring horticultural expertise, materials and construction knowledge, and a contextual, sustainable approach to all of our designs.

Projects

• Gan Zikaron Garden of Remembrance
  Clarksburg, MD, USA
  An enclosed garden and plaza provide a sense of enclosure and intimacy for visitors who come to remember loved ones.
• Good Samaritan Hospital
  Garden for Good
  Baltimore, MD, USA
  A designed garden including vegetables, herbs and cutting flowers to support the healthy hospital initiative.
• Irvine Nature Center
  Owings Mills, MD, USA
  116 acre nature center with varied settings for experiential learning and connections to the natural environment, including children focused activities.
• Levindale Rehabilitation Center Sensory Garden
  Baltimore, MD, USA
  A rich and varied garden for patients, families and staff at this skilled nursing and rehabilitation center.
• Loyola University Maryland (right image. Photography by Alain Jaramillo)
  9/11 Garden
  Baltimore, MD, USA
  A contemplative memorial garden for University students and faculty.
• Sinai Hospital Cancer Center Garden (left image. Photography by Alain Jaramillo)
  Baltimore, MD, USA
  Viewing garden for infusion patients.
• Sinai Hospital Hess Garden (center image)
  Baltimore, MD, USA
  Contemplative garden for hospital patients, families and staff.
• Western Maryland Hospital Chapel Garden
  Cumberland, MD, USA
  Viewing and contemplative garden for patients, family and staff at this regional hospital.
• Western Maryland Hospital Therapeutic Garden
  Cumberland, MD, USA
  Horticultural therapy and rehabilitation garden at this regional hospital.

I began with life with a mixed European heritage of musicians, sculptors', artists and scientists, an unconventional Liberal Arts education and a bohemian family who loved travel and looking at things. I then trained in theatre design, ran my own delicatessen and trained lengthily as a Transpersonal Psychologist and Psychotherapist and had this as my principle career for twelve years, working with deeply psychologically damaged people. Many people cite 'life changing events' when changing career drastically and I am no exception. In 1996 said event, like a river bursting its banks, altered my course into garden design and now, eleven years later, I have found my metier.

Our design efforts have resulted in many successful projects throughout the Southeastern United States. Our therapeutic gardens contain a design backbone of health, comfort, and safety with enhancements of delight, therapy and recovery. We excel at the integration of natural systems, variety, color, and form to excite and interest users while our framework of reminiscent landscape features and plants recollects warm memories.

Projects

• The Cedars of Chapel Hill
  Chapel Hill, NC, USA
  (left photo) Total site planning, landscape architecture, healing and sensory gardens for residents with Alzheimer’s, dementia garden.
  
• Danberry at Inverness
  Birmingham, AL, USA
  Patron Memorial Garden (center photo)
  Site Planning, landscape architecture, dementia garden
  
• Croasdaile Village
  Durham, NC, USA
  (right photo) Total facility site planning, sustainability master plan,  landscape architecture, contemplative space for residents with severe dementia, Japanese garden dining terrace, assisted living courtyard.
  
• Cascades at Verdae Village
  Greenville, NC, USA
  Total facility site planning, landscape architecture, recreation, performance, terrace dining and dementia and Alzheimer’s courtyards.
  

Projects

• Brookings Medical Center
  Brookings, Oregon
  Healing garden and staff garden
• Sacred Heart Medical Center
  University District, Eugene, Oregon
  Entrance Plaza, Rehabilitation/Therapeutic Garden, Chapel Garden
• Sky Lakes Medical Center (pictured center)
  Klamath Falls, Oregon
  Rooftop Healing Garden, Lobby Courtyard Garden, Staff Terrace
  See also http://mep-pc.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/sky_lakes_medical_center.pdf
  
• Columbia Memorial Hospital
  Astoria, Oregon
• Willamette Falls Hospital
  Oregon City, Oregon
  Entry Plaza and Water Feature
• Willamette Valley Hospital
  McMinnville, Oregon
• Providence Milwaukie Hospital (pictured at left) – Healing Garden
  Milwaukie, Oregon
  Healing Track and Oncology Center Garden
• Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center – Master Plan
  Corvallis, Oregon
• Good Samaritan Regional M.C. – Campus Healing Garden
  Corvallis, Oregon
• Good Samaritan Regional M.C. – West Tower Addition
  Corvallis, Oregon
• Good Samaritan Regional Cancer Center
  Corvallis, Oregon

Mahan Rykiel Associates offers thoughtful landscape design from master planning to site specific detailing. Sustainability, selection of appropriate materials, and responsible stewardship are fundamental to MRA’s design approach. With 15 LEED Accredited Professionals on our staff, we embrace the environmentally sound practices this process underscores - particularly in the healthcare environment. Please visit our website at www.mahanrykiel.com

Projects

• Anne Arundel Medical Center Healing Garden and Master Plan
  Annapolis, Maryland
• Baltimore/Washington Medical Center Healing Garden
  Annapolis, Maryland
• Calvert Memorial Hospital Healing Garden
  Prince Frederick, Maryland
• Chesterbrook Residences
  McLean, Virginia
• Collington CCRC Dementia Garden
  Mitchellville, MD
• Ginger Cove Health Center Garden
  Annapolis, Maryland
• The Heritage at Brentwood
  Brentwood, Tennessee
• Kennedy Krieger Institute Outpatient Facility Therapeutic Garden
  Baltimore, Maryland
• Mercy Medical Center Mary Catherine Bunting Center Roof Gardens
  Baltimore, Maryland
• Providence Hospital Healing Garden
  Washington D.C.
• Sibley Memorial Hospital Memorial Healing Garden
  Washington D.C.
• St. Luke’s Hospital Master Plan
  Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
• UMMS Weinberg Building Interior
  Baltimore, Maryland
• Kennedy Krieger Institute Outpatient Center Therapeutic Garden
  Baltimore, Maryland
• Westminster Canterbury CCRC
  Virginia Beach, VA

• Barnhart, S., N. H. Perkins, and J. FitzSimons (1998). "Behavioural and Setting Preferences at a Psychiatric Hospital." Landscape and Urban Planning, Vol. 42, Nos. 2-4, pp. 147-157.
• Burcher, L. (1999). "A Process for the Design of Outdoor Health Care Environments."
• England, K. and N. H. Perkins (1999). "Designing Therapeutic Settings for Psychiatric Hospitals." Symposium on Designing Healing Environments, Portland, OR.
• Ferguson, C. and N. H. Perkins (1998). "Hotel Services, Hospitals and Health Care: A Management Model for a Psychiatric Facility." XVI Congress of the World Association of Social Psychiatry, Vancouver, B.C.
• Larsen, L. and N. H. Perkins (1992). "An Assessment of Schizophrenic Patients' Visual Preferences for Outdoor Environments." Proceedings, Fourth North American Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Madison, WI.
• Yeats, T. "Exploring the Experiential Qualities of Landscape Settings at a Psychiatric Hospital."

You can find more references by Dr. Perkins on the Resources page.

Designing environments for patients must address specific physical and therapeutic needs in addition to visual interest. PRI’s landscape architects understand these needs and have developed gardens and site landscapes that follow evidence-based design (which uses research to support outcome-driven design decisions) and therapeutic benefits of healing gardens. Our staff is well-versed in collaborating with healthcare providers and administrators to provide a united approach.

Our work includes green roof design, LEED evaluation/strategy, landscape architecture, evidence-based design and therapeutic design for hospitals, acute care centers, facility healing gardens, skilled nursing and living centers, retirement communities, residential, Alzheimer and therapeutic gardens.

Projects

• The Claremont New Skilled Nursing and Living Center
  Hanover Park, IL, USA
  Grand pergola garden and outdoor living garden for Physical Therapy purposes
• Hopedale Acute Care Medical and Rehabilitation Complex
  Hopedale, IL, USA
  Therapy garden, sustainable landscape, LEED silver certification, environmentally sensitive stormwater management and transportation planning
  Visit Planning Resources Inc's website for more details
• VA Illiana Health Care System
  Danville, IL; Decatur, IL; Springfield, IL; Matoon, IL; and Lafayette, IN, USA
  Facility healing garden master plans
• Windsor Park Manor Retirement Community
  Carol Stream, IL, USA
  Alzheimer’s Garden, landscape design and wetland permitting
  Visit Planning Resources Inc's website for more details

Central to PMA’s design philosophy is a belief that the entire life cycle of the site should be taken into account. Successful plant establishment, weathering and site ecology are harnessed as design elements to create landscape experiences that are sustainable because they are dynamic and flexible in the long term. 
Maintenance considerations are included at every step of our planning and design process. We design functional, beautiful, and manageable landscapes. We pride ourselves on our attention to detail and insistence that our designs get built well. The elegance of our built work is the result of our thorough understanding of the methods and materials of landscape construction and excellent working relationships with builders and craftspeople.

PMA offers professional planning and design expertise combined with construction management and contract administration in the areas of:

Projects

• Valleyview Long Term Care Facility
  St. Thomas, ON
  http://www.elginconnects.ca/portal/?w=StThomasValleyviewSeniorsHome
• Allendale Care Facility
  Milton, ON
  http://www.halton.ca/scs/seniors/ltc/allendale.htm
• Elgin Manor Seniors Residence
  St. Thomas, ON
• Hillsdale Manor Seniors Residence (pictured above)
  Oshawa, ON
• James St. Bonham Residence
  Toronto, ON
• Parkview Home
  Stouffville, ON
  http://www.parkviewhome.ca/
• Lambton Meadowview
  Villa Petrolia, ON
  http://www.lambtononline.com/long-term_care
• Meadow Croft Place
  Toronto, ON
• Nygh Seniors Health Centre
  Toronto, ON
  http://www.nygh.on.ca/programs/long-term.html
• Brampton Civic Hospital
  Brampton, ON
  http://www.williamoslerhc.on.ca/body.cfm?id=58
• Stone Church Family Health Centre
  Hamilton, ON
  http://stonechurchclinic.ca/
• Leamington Mennonite Home
  Leamington, ON

Within the healthcare sector, PEA has provided design services that range from therapeutic garden design to site planning, campus planning, drainage studies, site plan approval and services related to achieving LEED certification. PEA works directly with healthcare providers or with architecture firms as part of a design team. PEA creates functionally successful therapeutic gardens that have elegance and beauty by using their creativity and technical expertise to synthesize complex program requirements with the art of the natural environment. PEA was honored by the Michigan Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architecture as the “Landscape Architecture Firm of the Year” in 2009.

Projects

• Beaumont Health Center
  Royal Oak, MI
• Beaumont Medical Center
  Lake Orion, MI
  
• Botsford Cancer Center
  Farmington Hills, MI
• Dearborn Medical Center
  Dearborn, MI
• Detroit Medical Center, Hutzel Women's Hospital
  Detroit, MI
• Great Lakes Cancer Center
  Independence Township, MI
• Hillsdale Community Health Center
  Hillsdale, MI
• Huron Medical Center
  Bad Axe, MI
• McLaren Cancer Center
  Independence Township, MI
• McLaren Healthcare Village
  Garden of Healing and Renewal
  Independence Township, MI
• Oakwood- South Shore Medical Center
  Trenton, MI
• St. Pauls Memorial Garden
  Brighton, MI

Articles about the Garden of Healing and Renewal

• Smith, Jeffrey (2009). “A Healing Garden for the Community.” Medical Construction & Design, November/December.
• Smith, Jeffrey (2009). “The Garden of Healing and Renewal – A Public Healing Garden.” The Michigan Landscape, September, Volume 52 , No. 9.
• Angell, Richard, Jeffrey Smith, and Lauren Williams (2010). “The Garden of Healing and Renewal, From Concept to Implementation – Bringing a Therapeutic Garden to Life.” The Michigan Landscape, January/February, Volume 53, No 1.

Projects

• Alegent Health Lakeside Hospital Healing Garden
  Omaha, NE, USA
  Indoor Cancer Unit
  The indoor in-patient cancer unit Family Oasis Garden highlights the four elements of earth, wind, fire, and water, utilizing toxin free, fire-code compliant, artificial materials to create a supportive garden space for cancer patients and their families.
  www.commercialsilk.com/artificial-plant-case-study_hospital-artificial-plants-enrich-alegent-lakeside-healing-garden_82.aspx
• Marquis Care Centennial
  Gresham, OR, USA
  Assisted Living Center
  Courtyard garden including seasonal plantings, covered activity spaces, raised beds, and therapy walk designed for use by physical therapists.
• Marquis Care Forest Grove
  Forest Grove, OR, USA
  Assisted Living Center
  Therapeutic garden for assisted living facility residents and staff.
  www.marquiscompanies.com/home
• Projects in Partnership with Legacy Health Systems (www.legacyhealth.org):
  
  
• Legacy Emanuel Medical Center
  Portland, OR, USA
  Oregon Burn Center Garden
  Acute Burn Patient Care Garden
  Oregon ASLA Award and American Horticultural Therapy Association Garden Design Award Winner
  As the first of its kind, the OBC healing garden serves the Pacific Northwest’s regional burn facility, offering physical and emotional support to patients, staff, and family members encountering the trauma of extreme burn wounds. The gardens serve as an active component of patient care and rehabilitation, complete with shade structures, cooling plants, and year-round accessibility.
  www.quatrefoilinc.net/burn.htm
• Legacy Emanuel Medical Center
  Portland, OR, USA
  Behavioral Health Therapy Garden
  Secure Psychiatric Unit Garden
  The garden is suited to the particular needs of acute mental health care staff and patients, offering a fully secure outdoor space for patient therapy. All plantings, materials, and site furnishings were chosen to eliminate possibilities for harm, escape, or danger for garden users and accompanying staff. A covered structure and basketball hoop offer year round activity. A fountain constructed and secured to be free of loose components offers therapeutic site and sound of water without compromising safety.
• Legacy Emanuel Medical Center
  Portland, OR, USA
  The Children’s Garden
  Activity Pavilion and Upgrades
  The garden features whimsical children’s themes throughout, including a looping yellow brick road and engaging garden art and statuary. A brightly colored activity shelter provides space for year round use, seasonal plantings and ongoing garden activities invite families and guests alike to enjoy the retreat from the neighboring hospital facilities, and the garden provides soothing views from the surrounding hallway corridors and patient rooms.
• Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center Healing Garden
  Tualatin, OR, USA
  General Hospital Garden
  The outdoor courtyard garden is surrounding by patient rooms, medical offices, the campus cafeteria, and the pediatric physical therapy center. The design offers varied walking surfaces, raised beds, covered structures, activity tables, a water wall and bubbler rock fountain, and specialty plantings including native, stormwater, sensory, children’s, edible, and conifer gardens.
• Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center Healing Garden
  Gresham, OR, USA
  General Hospital Garden
  The garden facility offers varied surfaces, raised beds, covered structures, seasonal plantings, a central water features, specialty butterfly, alpine, and native gardens, and a variety of seating spaces for patients and visitors.
• Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center Stenzel Healing Garden
  Portland, OR, USA
  Activity Pavilion and Garden Upgrades;
  Situated between surrounding medical buildings, the garden offers a variety of supportive therapeutic environments as well as soothing views from surrounding rooms. The most recent addition to the garden is a new covered structure for outdoor activities and year round shelter from the elements.
  
  
• Portland Memory Garden
  Portland, OR, USA
  Alzheimer’s Garden
  Designed in cooperation with Portland Parks, ASLA, and Center of Design for an Aging Society
  The enclosed garden situated inside one of Portland, Oregon’s public parks provides a supportive, safe environment for Alzheimer’s patients and their families and caregivers. The space is accessed from a single point of entry, and a looping path system supports intuitive way finding. Raised beds, walking rails, and world-class plantings offer an accessible and sensory rich visitor experience.
  www.quatrefoilinc.net/memory.htm
• Providence Benedictine Nursing Center
  Mt. Angel, OR, USA
  Assisted Living Facility Garden
  The courtyard garden serves the assisted living center residents, family, and staff, offering four season plantings, a covered structure for sheltered outdoor activity, a central water feature, wide looping path system, and children’s art from the surrounding community incorporated into accessible raised beds.
  www.quatrefoilinc.net/benedictine.htm
• Providence Elderplace
  Gresham, OR, USA
  Senior Day Use Center
  Therapeutic Garden for community seniors. The garden will features raised beds for active gardening, large and small group gathering areas, and a therapy walk.
• Returning Heroes Home Warrior and Family Support Center
  Fort Sam Houston
  San Antonio, TX, USA
  Armed Combat Injury Treatment Facility
  The therapeutic garden serves wounded veterans in rehabilitation from extensive burn injuries, loss of limbs, head and internal injuries.
  www.returningheroeshome.org
• Tuality Healthcare
  Hillsboro, OR, USA
  Rooftop Therapeutic Garden
  Renovated rooftop garden for adult and pediatric in-patient care.

Spalenka grew up as a Navy dependent with world travel experience and served in the Army as a Combat Engineer in Europe both in a combat role and practiced as a landscape architect with the Armed Forces Recreation Center - Garmisch, Germany. He has returned to Europe many times to visit friends and family, and his projects are influenced by both European and Asian experiences.

Projects

Association for Research and Enlightenment (Edgar Cayce A.R.E)
Harris Prayer and Meditation Garden
Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Edgar Cayce Research Center and Headquarters
www.edgarcayce.org

SPROUT believes that a restorative environment is crafted by a careful arrangement of a variety of sensory, psychological and natural stimuli in an effort to:

• Bring the visitor to the moment by connecting to something outside the body (a sensory experience or connection with nature)
• Bring the visitor to an awareness of an environment bigger than “the problem” to regain a sense of perspective and control (psychological stimuli)

SPROUT strives to incorporate features that are the right choice considering each unique patient population through evidence based design. Landscapes for Healing incorporate features shown to be beneficial through past research and are tested in post occupancy evaluations. SPROUT collaborates with caregivers, patients, families and integrated design teams to design supportive, safe, and accessible outdoor spaces

Hanley Center Master Plan
West Palm Beach, FL, USA
The Hanley Center is a not for profit drug and alcohol rehabilitation center. A 12-step garden associated with the wellness center focuses on themes and metaphors associated with the recovery process.The Master Plan incorporates walking paths with sensory plant material, a walking meditation garden associated with a chapel, labyrinth, ropes course, horticultural therapy areas, butterfly garden and outdoor patios.

Hanley Resource Center
West Palm Beach, FL, USA
The Hanley Resource Center is the hub of community outreach for the Hanley Center. The Resource Center holds classes for families and corporations. Several outdoor spaces accommodate a variety of group sizes in a relaxed setting, surrounded by lush plantings. The spaces were carefully detailed to provide shelter and shade including moveable furniture, leafy tree canopies and a trellis with vines for shade and privacy. A large garden area adjacent to a popular inspirational book store encourages reading outdoors, small staff gatherings, and private meetings with a mentor in a restorative setting. A smaller area directly adjacent to classrooms provides a space for students to refresh during break. The site landscaping mitigates traffic noise and bermed plantings of native, xeric and low maintenance plant material distract from a nearby busy road.

Jupiter Medical Center Emergency Room
Jupiter, FL, USA
Jupiter Medical Center is an acute care hospital. This garden provides a comfortable outdoor alternative to the indoor waiting room. Lush tropical plantings provide a variety of colors and textures, a bubbling fountain provides a pleasant distraction from the stresses associated with acute care. Visitors are protected from sun and rain by a canopy cover, breezes are supplemented by outdoor fans and vending machines provide the opportunity for refreshment.

Jupiter Medical Center Pavilion Master Plan
Jupiter, FL , USA
A series of connected gardens at this 120-bed nursing and rehabilitation facility emphasizes four therapeutic outcomes:

1. Sense of Control - Residents can choose whether to sit in the sun or shade, in groups or alone. Curved pathways unify the outdoor areas and allow residents to choose where and how far into the gardens they wish to explore.
2. Exposure to Nature - A bird garden, raised water garden, and plantings along a large pond provide wildlife habitat. A raised gazebo is oriented to feel the predominant southeast breezes. Eighty-percent of bedroom windows have views to a designed outdoor space for residents unable to venture outside.
3. Exercise - Paths encourage patients and staff to stroll or explore in their wheelchairs. Benches, fountains, and small sculptures provide subtle "goals" to reach.
4. Social Support - Spatial considerations for wheelchairs allow residents to meet outside with family and friends. Please visit www.roy-fisher.com to view a plan, pictures and an extensive post occupancy evaluation of this project.

Jupiter Medical Center Pavilion Butterfly Garden
Jupiter, FL. USA
The Pavilion Butterfly Garden was the first of a series of garden spaces developed at this Nursing Home facility. The butterfly garden featured a trellis, a variety plantings that attract butterflies and a fountain for residents to view from their indoor dining room.

Jupiter Medical Center Pavilion Pond Restoration
Jupiter, FL, USA
This project at a Rehabilitation and Nursing Home Facility was funded by a local grant to improve water quality. The perimeter of the retention pond was planted with native plantings that provides habitat for waterfowl as well as screens an unattractive parking lot. A spray fountain cools an adjacent patio that is a favorite gathering place for residents to relax and enjoy the wildlife associated with the pond setting.

Jupiter Medical Center
Jacqueline Fiske Healing Garden
Jupiter, FL, USA
The idea for a healing garden began with the Director of the Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Center. She thought that if her patients could look at something other than blank walls, they would be more inclined to exercise. Through a program called Johnny Apple Seed, hospital staff and volunteers donated close to $20,000. Part of this seed money enabled the development of preliminary plans. The plans were mounted on a sign to request further funding for the garden. In 2002, Guy Fiske visited the hospital with his wife, Jacqueline, saw the sign and offered to fund the garden as a Valentine’s gift to her. She accepted. Through the Fiskes’ generosity, not only was the garden construction funded, but an escrow account was established for long term maintenance.

The goal of the Jacqueline Fiske Healing Garden is to foster the physical, mental and spiritual restoration of patients, visitors and staff by distracting from the medical setting. A series of garden spaces connected by paths create a tranquil and sheltered environment. The garden can be seen from inside the Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Center exercise room and offers an alternative outdoor route between hospital units. Seating areas for visitors, patients and staff seamlessly incorporate elements that can be used in rehabilitation therapy.
The garden has several special features. The central focus is a calming pool of water that can be touched and provides a soothing sound. A sculpture of a pair of rising herons by a local artist provides a healing metaphor in the fountain. A transplanted 40’ live oak gives a sense of permanency as well as shade. A large arbor provides a sheltered meeting place and a shaded transition area from indoors. The Jacqueline Fiske Healing Garden received an award of excellence from the Florida Association of Landscape Architects. Please visit our website www.roy-fisher.com for a plan, pictures and to review a post occupancy evaluation of this project.

Jupiter Medical Center
Jacqueline Fiske Garden of Hope
Jupiter, FL
The Garden of Hope is cradled between a meditative lake and cancer center views. A series of spaces accommodate support group gatherings and provide private spaces for quiet reflection amidst a calm lake setting. A Seven-Point Vessica Pattern represents the interconnection of all life and provides a gathering place for meditative exercises. An adjacent shaded patio accommodates outdoor yoga and group meetings. A lush variety of plants creates a sensory environment that attracts wildlife and provides a positive distraction. SPROUT Roy-Fisher Associates facilitated focus groups with patients and staff to identify garden elements that support the emotional needs of individuals with cancer and incorporate the garden into support group programming. Patients preferred two spiritual archetypal landscapes - the promontory (extension) and the harbor (embracing) - which informed the design. Please visit our website www.roy-fisher.com for pictures and a plan of this project.

Mollie Wilmot Center
West Palm Beach, FL, USA
A welcoming environment that is attractive and intriguing to children complements this medical facility’s state-funded program for underserved children. Topiary wildlife hangs from trees for patients on gurneys to observe on their arrival. Colorful fish in waves of native grasses greet children from the parking lot. A proposed canopy and shade structure over a play area will provide protection from the sun and rain. A future bubble garden will let play elements "float" to children in wheelchairs in an area that also attracts butterflies with specialized plantings. Raised vegetable gardens will be used in diabetes education classes.

Views from the adjacent lobby attract patients, visitors, and staff outside, alleviating an overcrowded waiting room. A stained glass window provides a nature setting in a quiet room overlooking a trickling water feature in the garden. The connection with nature provides a pleasant distraction from treatments. Please visit our website www.roy-fisher.com for pictures and a plan of this project.

Ms. Delaney’s projects place an emphasis on the integration of physical form with narratives referencing the currency of a site’s unique historical, cultural, physical and environmental profiles. The text of the terrain is evidenced in the structure of these narratives, crafted by technical skill and quality of materials to create a site which will be read and interpreted by the general public.

Projects

• Avon Comprehensive Breast Center, San Francisco General Hospital (left image)
  Carolyn S. Stolman Healing Garden
  San Francisco, CA, USA
• Beth Israel Hospital
  Jonathan Parker Abramson Garden "A Safe Harbor"
  New York, NY, USA
• Isaac Espinoza Memorial Garden (right image)
  San Francisco Police Department Bayview Station
  San Francisco, CA, USA
• Kenneth Norris Cancer Center, University of Southern California
  The Sherri Hinderstein Memorial Garden
  Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Marin General Hospital, Marin Cancer Institute (center image)
  Greenbrae, CA, USA
  Meditation Garden
• San Diego Children's Hospital and Health Center
  Leichtag Family Healing Garden
  San Diego, CA, USA

The founder, Jan Satterthwaite, ASLA, L.E.E.D., is an experienced public artist and award winning designer whose interest in landscape architecture has been a lifetime journey that first began with intuition and learning to read place. Later it was leavened by observing the landscape via world travel, freelance work in art as well as experience living with cancer. Her design philosophy is drawn from a dual sensibility—in aesthetics and evidence based design. It is the intersection of the intuitive design process and a sensitivity to individuals with special needs where she finds design can successfully influence environmental change and promote therapeutic health benefits. Having once been a cancer patient, her focus is on the human experience in the landscape, with consistent themes appearing in her design exploration—a profound engagement with site and a modernist faith in the ability of design to transform both site and human response.

Projects

• VA Puget Sound Fisher House
  Veterans Peace Garden
  Seattle, WA, USA
  Meditation & healing garden for families of veterans (right-hand image)
  This transformative garden project was sparked by the energy of the Friends of VA Puget Sound Fisher House™ working in collaboration with students at the University of Washington Dept. of Landscape Architecture Design/Build program. The new landscape is intended to soothe the souls and refresh the spirits of the military and Veteran families staying at Fisher House. The concept design for the garden embodies the “healing journey.” One enters the garden through a threshold of trees, leading to a central plaza. The focal point of the plaza is a “reflection” sculpture composed of metal bands weaving through a bed of ornamental grasses, suggesting the movement of wind. The plaza is surrounded by textured, colorful, and aromatic plants to delight the senses. The pavilion is also marked by metal panels depicting a dove and olive branch motif, referencing peace and healing. An extended woodland restoration garden completes the “healing journey,” symbolizing both spiritual and ecological reclamation.
  Click here to view description, plan, renderings, and images of the garden.
  Click here to view a video of the project, from build to finish.
• Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital
  Yakima, WA, USA
  Healthcare Master Plan
  Successive arrangement of ADA pathways, viewing plazas, a meditation meadow and interactive elements to provide staff, patients and children opportunities for restoration, meditation, & healing.
  [Project design while at Berger Partnership]
• Fircrest Rehabilitation School
  Seattle, WA, USA
  Healing Garden
  Fircrest provides specialized, high-quality personalized service to the most challenged individuals with developmental disabilities. It serves a diverse population of people who are medically fragile, multiply handicapped, and behaviorally challenged. The accessible garden serves a dual purpose: as outdoor therapy and mitigates the displacement that residents undergo to provide a reconnection of a familiar ‘home’ landscape. A production zone, consisting of raised gardening beds and work tables, provide a space for horticultural therapy activities. A play and exploration zone, with a series of sensory paths, a wheelchair chime and interactive game table address cognitive skills. The zones can be chosen by individuals or caregiver groups. For users with low social skills, severe autism for example, parallel play or gardening may represent the highest level of social interaction they can manage. For others, gardening side by side may inspire social interactions not stimulated by more passive activities. In addition to the therapeutic aspects of the garden, a memorial circle was installed to commemorate the memory of residents, parents, guardians and friends who have passed away as well as other life celebrations and memorable events in Fircrest history.
  Click here to view images of the garden.
• Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital
  Tacoma, WA, USA
  Restorative Healing Garden (left image)
  Children in any kind of environment like to make up imaginary worlds to cope with adversity and the challenge of growing up. In this healthcare setting, a whimsical and colorful planting design offers children, parents and visitors a sense of surprise and delight, awakening a new part of consciousness and relief from a potentially stressful hospital environment. A more contemplative garden behind the facility offers staff and visitors a place of refuge and respite.[Project design while at Bruce Dees & Associates]
• U.W. Bnai Brith Hillel House
  Seattle, WA, USA
  Restorative teaching garden (center image)
  Amongst the hustle & bustle of a busy urban university campus, the design for this project serves a dual purpose:  visitor respite and contemplation combined with an educational experience.  Natural materials have been selected to reflect the local vernacular.  Seating boulders and entry arbors define outdoor rooms that evoke a transition to nature.   They are functional but they also respond to human needs, built on a scale to welcome and reassure.  Plants were chosen with a biblical or historical meaning to serve as a catalyst, inspiring students and guests to reach out to their past.  The design was as much about creating a functional outdoor story room as it was about deepening personal knowledge and attaining peace with oneself. 
  [Project design while at Bruce Dees & Associates]
  

Projects

• Allendale Long Term Care Facility
  Milton, Ontario, Canada
  Therapeutic Garden Courtyards
• Burlington Labyrinth Project
  Central Park, Burlington, Ontario, Canada
• Homewood Health Centre
  Guelph, Ontario, Canada
  The Homewood Labyrinth (first psychiatric hospital in Canada to create a permanent outdoor labyrinth for clients, their families, and staff)
• Interval House Shelter for Abused Women
  Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
• John Gordon Home AIDS Hospice Healing Garden
  London, Ontario, Canada
• Post Inn Village Long Term Care Facility
  Oakville, Ontario, Canada
  Two therapeutic garden courtyards, one that includes multi-generational day care
• Shalom Village Seniors Facility
  Hamilton, Ontari, Canada
  Gussie Sobel Healing Garden and other therapeutic garden areas
• Versa Care-Brantford Long Term Care Facility
  Brantford, Ontario, Canada
  Therapeutic Garden Assessment

Zaretsky and Associates, Inc. are dedicated to improving lives through creative and inspiring gardens and landscapes. We do this by creating gardens that are interactive, sensory, stimulating, calming, and memory-enhancing. Gardens heal the body and soul. We engage the visitor and inspire them to interact with the space, not just pass through it. Zaretsky and Associates offers design of residential, public and health-care gardens, labyrinth design, consultation, project management and installation nationally.

Projects

• Rochester General Hospital Woodward Healing Garden
  Rochester, NY
  See Zaretsky and Associates' website for info
  Entry gardens and an outdoor waiting area for relatives and friends of patients. Installation of the waiting area (a stone fence in the shape of a Nautilus) and management of the rest of the site work and installation.
• Rochester General Hospital
  Rochester, NY
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  Healing Garden in a central courtyard of the hospital.
• Cherry Ridge Assisted Living Center
  Webster, NY
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  Design and installation of Alzheimer’s garden for senior living facility.
• Kirkhaven Nursing Home
  Rochester, NY
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  Design and installation of a garden for an assisted living center, including a curved pergola, waterfall wall, entertainment space. Had to meet Preservation District parameters.
• Sharon’s Sensory Garden
  Mendon Ponds Park, Mendon, NY
  See Zaretsky and Associates' website for info
  Design and installation of a sensory garden with 175’ of raised gardens, waterfalls, and an herb garden. 75 varieties of fragrant plants; Braille plant identification plates; fully wheelchair and sight-impaired accessible.
• Shepherd’s Home
  Penfield, NY
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  Design and installation of healing gardens for a hospice.
• Strong National Museum of Play
  Rochester, NY
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  Design and installation of Dancing Wings Butterfly Conservatory.
• Crestwood Children’s Center
  Scottsville, NY
  Pro-bono design and installation of a garden for mentally impaired children and their parents.
• Daystar Treatment Center
  Pittsford, NY
  Pro-bono design for a daycare center for children with severe physical handicaps.
• Equicenter
  Mendon, NY
  On-going landscape consultation for therapeutic equine center.
• Fairport Baptist Home
  Fairport, NY
  Water garden installation for an assisted living center.
• Maplewood Nursing Home
  Webster, NY
  Water garden, woodland trail and planting installation for an assisted living center.
• Private Residence
  Gates, NY
  Design of an Alzheimer’s garden for a private residence.