Healing Garden Design Guidelines
Its design needs to avoid straight lines seer volumes and planes and excessive use of symmetry.
Healing garden design guidelines. Volume xlvi 426 guidelines for the design of a healing garden for the rehabilitation of psychiatric patients chantal erbino alessandro toccolini ilda vagge paolo stefano ferrario department of agricultural and environmental sciences university of milan italy stigsdotter and grahn 2002. Landscape architects design therapeutic or healing gardens at different scales 67 68. Healing gardens are outdoor spaces designed to support health and well being and provide comfort for people.
For this reason a master plan of guidelines and goals behind designing healing gardens could act as a helpful template for any designer working to build a healing garden. It should discourage rigidity conceptual thinking and preconceived notions of design. Journal of agricultural engineering 2015.