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HEALING GARDENSAN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH TO HEALTH

BY: MANUEL FERNANDEZ PROFESSOR: HOFU WU FALL 2012



DEFINITION

• “TO JUSTIFY THE LABEL

'HEALING,' A GARDEN

SHOULD HAVE

THERAPEUTIC ORBENEFICIAL EFFECTS ON

THE GREAT MAJORITY

OF ITS USERS”

(MARCUS 30)

TABOR HILLS HEALTHCARE FACILITY, IN NAPERVILLE, ILLINOIS



HISTORY: ISLAMIC PARADISE AND

MONASTIC GARDENS• COURTYARD SPACES

• 2500 BC

• "ETERNAL AND

EVERLASTING BEAUTY,SUSTENANCE, AND

PLEASURE" (MARCUS

96)

MONASTIC GARDEN IN ITALY



HISTORY: LABYRINTH

• TRACED BACK TO EGYPT

• 2000 BC

• FIRST APPEARED ON

STONE

• SPIRITUAL PATH TO

GOD

CHARTRES CATHEDRAL IN FRANCE



HISTORY: JAPANESE ZEN GARDEN

KYOTO, JAPAN

• 1185-1333

• "BRING TOGETHER ALLOF THE ELEMENTS OF

THE LANDSCAPE INTO'A PICTURESQUE IMAGETHAT CAN BE TAKEN INAT A GLANCE'"(MARCUS 94)

• STONE, RACKED SAND,AND A FEW PLANTS



HISTORY: 20TH CENTURY

• TECHNOLOGY

ADVANCES

• UNTIL RECENT YEARS

GARDENS HAVE BEGANTO BE

REINCORPORATED INTO

HOSPITALS AS AN

ALTERNATIVE WAY OFHEALING



TYPES OF GARDENS

• THERAPEUTIC – A GARDEN WHERE A PATIENT CAN

GO OTHER THAN AN ENCLOSEDPLACE TO HAVE THERAPEUTIC

BENEFITS.

• MEDITATION – A GARDEN WHERE A PATIENT CAN

GO TO SIT QUIETLY AND NOT BEBOTHERED BY ARTIFICIAL NOISE ORPEOPLE.

• VIEWING – A GARDEN THAT WITHOUT BEINGACCESSED AND BY SIMPLY BEINGVIEWED HAS THERAUPETICBENEFITS ON PATIENTS.



BENEFITS

• STRESS REDUCTION

• THERAUPETIC

• PAIN REDUCTION

• QUICKER HEALING TIME

• ACCESS TO NATURE

• MORE NATURAL LIGHT

• GREEN SPACE IN A SMALLAREA

• STAFF FEELSCOMFORTABLE IN THEWORKING ENVIRONMENTSAANICH PENINSULA HOSPITAL IN

BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA



DESIGNING A HEALING GARDEN:

INCLUDE• WAYFINDING

• SHADING

• PLACES TO SIT

• NATURE

– WATER FEATURES

– VEGETATION

MOUNT ZION CANCER

CLINIC IN SAN FRANCISCO




KEEP OUT

• NOISE DISTRACTIONS

– CARS

– AIR CONDITIONERS

– PEOPLE

• DISTRACTING OR OUT

OF PLACE OBJECTS

ADVENTIST GARDEN IN MARYLAND




PEOPLE• PATIENTS

• STAFF

• FAMILY



PATIENT SPECIFIC GARDENS

• CHILDREN

• ALZHEIMER’S

• NURSING HOMES

• PSYCHIATRIC

• INPATIENT/OUTPATIENT



THESE SHOULD NOT BE

CONSIDERED HEALING GARDENS

Mary and Al Schneider Healing Garden at University Hospitals’

Seidman Cancer Center

THE JOHN & SUE DERMODY CHILDREN'S HEALING GARDEN



GOOD EXAMPLES

Saanich Peninsula Hospital FAMILY LIFE CENTRE IN GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN



CITY OF HOPE HEALING GARDENDUARTE, CA



DELL CHILDREN’S MEDICAL CENTER OF

CENTRAL TEXAS



NATURE AIDS HEALING



CONCLUSION

• HEALING GARDENS ARE

BENEFITIAL AND

ESSENTIAL TO INCLUDE

IN A HOSPTIAL

SAANICH PENINSULA HOSPITAL IN

BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA



RECOMMENDATIONS

• INCLUDE A HEALING

GARDEN IN THE DESIGN

PROCESS OF A

HOSPITAL EARLY ON• THINK ABOUT THE

USERS

Life Enrichment Center in Kings Mountain, North Carolina



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• Marcus, Clare Cooper., and Marni Barnes. Healing Gardens: Therapeutic Benefits and DesignRecommendations. New York: Wiley, 1999. Print.

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