THE APPLICATION OF HEALING GARDEN ON THE MOTHER AND CHILD HOSPITAL DESIGN STRATEGY

Abstract

Some researches show that healing environment has big impact for patient’s health and well-being. Healing environment is a design concept that has environment as its dominant issue. Nature and its element, such as natural lighting, air circulation, and silence could make patient become calmer and reduce patient’s stress and depression. These natural elements could be realized by applying healing garden. The method of this research is triangulation of source method by showing qualitative and descriptive data. The result of this research is the principle application of healing garden in design. The applications of healing garden could stimulate human’s sense, such as sense of sight by applying various colours, materials, and natural lighting, sense of hearing by applying artificial pond and noise control, sense of touch by applying vegetation which sensitive of touch, sense of taste by applying vegetation that could be eaten, and sense of smell by applying flowers. The garden should be easy to find and recognize by applying sign and symbol. The garden will be provided with accessibility for patient by applying ramp and the width of the road, healing garden in front of the hospital and certain area, and also provided place for animals.