文档介绍:Healing Heavens and Le Corbusier
Designing a garden for a children's hospital can be a particular challenge. If is going to function well for the variety of people who may seek to use it, the garden needs to be all of the following:
·a green oasis for burnt-out staff
·a sanctuary for worried or grieving parents
·an engaging environment for hospitalized children
·a stimulating setting for the well siblings of an inpatient
·a stress-reducing milieu for an outpatient child brought in forests or frightening procedures。
The Children’s Garden at Legacy Emanuel Children’s Hospital in Portland, Oregon--although at first glance appearing to be "nothing special"—-subtly fulfills the needs of all these potential garden users~ As a result the garden, open 24 hours a day, receives use by adult as well as child patients, and by all who use or visit the hospital.
In 1997, Legacy Health System hired Portland architects Mic and Connie Johnson to remodel and coordinate the pediatric facilities in the hospital and to create a new corridor linking the main hospital foyer to elevators accessing pediatric check-in on an upper floor. Visible through the windows of the new corridor was an unkempt courtyard with a soggy patch of lawn。 The CEO of Legacy Health System, John G。 King, was moving the hospital toward more patient—centered care; creating a new garden in the courtyard fit in with this goal.
As often happens in the creation of health—care gardens, the idea of a new design was endorsed enthusiastically, but the design team was told the money had to be found. The John— sons created a conceptual design and then brought in Portland landscape architect Gretchen Vadnais to work on grading and planting. Since money was scarce, the garden was created in phases, the first being a small wildlife habitat that was created by Vadnais in 1995. ”The phasing of the garden worked well for the design team," recalls Connie Johnson. "It allowed us to dream big, to have faith that in the end