The new Healing Garden courtyard and renovated lobby offers a restorative sensory experience that is symbolic of the natural cycles of life. As a focal point for the treatment center, this therapeutic garden features outdoor gathering spaces interwoven with lush greenery, meditation pathways, specimen trees, colorful understory plants, two linear water features, acrylic scrims and a shade arbor visible from many of the hospital’s patient rooms in the open air courtyard.

A portion of the hospital’s lobby corridor was removed and remodeled to create an inviting entrance and visual link to the healing garden. An exterior wall along the north end of the garden was removed and replaced with floor to ceiling glass. In addition to removing two of the corridor walls and to provide a seamless transition between interior and exterior space, carpeting and tile were removed and replaced with natural limestone paving. A dropped wooden ceiling, further identify and transition the lobby to the healing garden.

Through this enriched multi-sensory setting, the landscape evokes feelings of well-being, provides places of serenity and rejuvenation, and imparts visitors with a sense of connectedness to the natural world.

Ten Eyck Landscape Architects served as prime consultant on this project.