Arizona Cancer Center at UMC North. Image courtesy Ten Eyck Landscape Architects
The Therapeutic Landscapes Network's primary focus is gardens in healthcare facilities. These landscapes are designed for a specific population, often with an specific purpose (e.g., encouraging seniors to get outside for exercise, sunlight and fresh air; enabling children to "blow off steam" during a hospital visit; helping patients learn to use a wheelchair on outdoor surfaces). They are (or should be) designed using evidence-based design (EBD), design based on the most current research available.
Gardens in this section are listed in alphabetical order by name of facility. We are raising funds to implement a map so that gardens can be searched geographically. Donations toward that effort are welcome! In the meantime, use the search box at the top of any page for specific locations (city, state, country) as well as keywords (e.g., "children's" or "Alzheimer's, "rooftop" or "atrium.")
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Abbott Northwestern Hospital
Heart of the Mall Garden
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Four-season healing garden located at the center of the hospital campus
Open to the public
Acute Hospital for the South West (under design/construction; scheduled completion, 2012)
Western Health and Social Care Trust
Enniskillen, Northern Ireland
"Set among wooded hills, meadows & lakes, the scheme represents a genuine integration of building & landscape in an environmentally & socially sustainable design. Natural materials have been selected to reflect the local vernacular, including a natural stone base, extensive use of wood & glass, & pitched roofs. A linear garden, running the length of the building, has the dual purpose of bringing natural light & the richly landscaped campus into the heart of the hospital, & provides the main organising feature of the hospital."
Designer: Anshen+Allen Architects
Allendale Burlington Long Term Care Facility
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC)
Two therapeutic garden courtyards, one that includes multi-generational day care.
Designer: Visionscapes Landscape Architects Inc.
Allendale Long Term Care Facility
Milton, Ontario, Canada
Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC)
Therapeutic Garden Courtyards
Designer: Visionscapes Landscape Architects Inc.
The Alois Alzheimer Center
Greenhills, OH, USA
The Crane Garden; East Viewing Terrace
Designer: Beckwith Chapman Associates, Inc.
www.alois.com
Alta Bates Medical Center, Ashby Campus
Berkeley, CA, USA
Acute Care General
Rooftop garden
Anne Arundel Medical Center Healing Garden
Annapolis, MD, USA
Healing Garden and meditation center
Located on the first floor of the AAMC Acute Care Pavilion, 2001 Medical Parkway
Designer: Mahan Rykiel Associates Inc.
Arizona Cancer Center at UMC North
Tuscon, AZ, USA
Healing gardens
Designer: Ten Eyck Landscape Architects
Includes outdoor terrace, intimate healing gardens, meditation-based pathway, deer grass, arizona sycamore, sage and other types of desert plants, bridge. “The open composition of desert plants changes to feel more like a garden nearer the building, with a different grass or flowering shrub lining each path to distinguish one entrance from another. This is a subtle but very effective technique to help patients find their way.” (From article cited below.)
For images and further description, visit www.teneyckla.com/projects/health-environments/arizona-cancer-center-at-umc-north.
For more photographs of the healing gardens, refer to www.coarchitects.com, and then proceed to “Projects,” then to “Healthcare,” then to “Cancer Center Clinic at UMC.”
Articles:
Latane, Claire (2009). “Healing with Nature: A Hospital Landscape Invites Patients, Visitors, Wildlife, and Water.” Landscape Architecture, Vol. 99, No. 11, pp. 28-32 (Article on the original design and growth of the Cancer Clinic and how it integrates with the facility structures).
"Peter and Paula Fasseas Cancer Clinic at University Medical Center North Tucson, Arizona CO Architects." (2008) Healthcare Design. November, pp. 8-12. www.healthcaredesignmagazine.com/article/peter-and-paula-fasseas-cancer-clinic-university-medical-center-north-tucson-arizona-co-arch (pictures included)
Avon Comprehensive Breast Center
San Francisco, CA, USA
Carolyn S. Stolman Healing Garden
Cancer care center
Courtyard garden
Designer: T. Delaney, Inc./SEAM Studio
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