Influencing well-being from the outside in
Introduction ― 4
Selected Projects ― 8
Front Cover: Duke Medicine Pavilion Plaza, Durham, North Carolina
Willson Hospice House, Albany, Georgia
Cultivating healthy sites and experiences
Our environment profoundly effects our mental and physical health. Through our practice, we apply evidencebased design to promote wellness and improve the lives of patients and staff. As landscape architects, our expertise in natural processes and design allows us to create green spaces that support treatment, speed recovery, and facilitate holistic care. Well-Being
Applying researchbased principles to the design of healthcare gardens and grounds.
Wellness is all-encompassing. Therefore, our approach to healthcare design emphasizes collaboration and resilience. By grounding our process in research, we are able to make more empathetic decisions as designers and more restorative spaces for patients, their families, and healthcare providers.
We focus on creating a variety of immersive spaces. By fostering multiple opportunities to connect to nature, we can compound its positive health effects by making green space more accessible and tailored to the end user. Guided by an interdisciplinary team of professionals, our healthcare projects seek to promote the healing of both people and the environment to achieve their therapeutic function.
Projects
Selected Projects
Duke Medicine Pavilion Plaza, Duke
University
Durham, North Carolina
Client: Duke University Medical Center
Size: 20,000 square feet
Completion Date: 2013
Sustainability: LEED Gold ®
Awards:
Award of Excellence, ASLA Tri-State, 2014, The Landscape Architecture Awards for Healthcare Environments, Bronze Award, 2013
― WHAT IT IS
An elevated plaza and garden that connects the three surrounding buildings and provides opportunities for gathering and respite beyond the hospital walls.
Overlooking a garden of sedums and flowering plants, the roof terrace features a seating area shaded by an arbor.
The plaza strategically conceals an emergency power plant beneath it, while providing valuable green space for all to enjoy.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Designed specifically for chemotherapy patients, the plaza helps create calmness of mind and thought through simplicity of form.
Duke Medicine Pavilion Plaza
The plaza allows for moments of reflection and social connection.
Soft lighting and clear views create a 24-hour place for patients and staff to decompress.
The roof terrace plant palette creates seasonal interest with staggered bloom times.
Carti Cancer Center
Little Rock, Arkansas
Client: CARTI
Size: 10 acres
Completion Date: 2015
Awards:
People’s Choice Award, AIA Georgia, 2017
Market Award - Large Healthcare, Shaw Contract, 2017
Design Excellence Award - ASID Georgia 2016
A healing garden, green roof, and entry landscape combine to provide an immersive nature experience for patients, visitors, and staff.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The design expresses the unique landscape of Arkansas by featuring native plants and stone harvested on site.
Visitors converse at the dining terrace.
The healing garden includes a looped path system that provides a meditative experience for users.
The building is sited on a hilltop nestled in a forest setting, which affords dramatic views of the natural environment.
Carti Cancer Center
UHealth Lennar Foundation Medical Center
Client: UHealth Gables
Size: 5.7 acres
Completion Date: 2016 Awards:
Merit Award, AIA Georgia, 2018 Best of Healthcare, IIDA Georgia, 2018
Miami, Florida ― WHAT IT IS A medical center landscape that provides a restorative experience for patients, staff, and visitors with access to nature.
The third-floor roof garden provides a calming open-air environment.
The canal terrace offers a welcome retreat for patients and staff.
Terraced seating and plantings are featured along the lush urban canal that bisects the campus.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Physical therapists have patients use the ramps, stairs, seat walls, and variety of walking surfaces on the rooftop garden as part of their restorative therapy.
Flush bands of paving and inviting planting welcome patients to the center while simultaneously slowing vehicular traffic.
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Physical therapists have patients use the ramps, stairs, seat walls, and variety of walking surfaces in the garden as part of their restorative therapy
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The third floor rooftop is designed specifically for physical therapy activities.
A grove of specimen Gumbo Limbo trees transplanted from other locations on the site serve as the focal point of the North Plaza.
UHealth Lennar Foundation Medical Center
Palms and Mahogany trees define the main entry road.
A bridge across the canal connects the clinic with parking.
Piedmont Hospital
Newnan, Georgia
Client: Piedmont Healthcare
Size: 105 acres
Completion Date: 2012
Awards:
Merit Award, Georgia ASLA, 2013
― WHAT IT IS
An axis defined by an allée of trees leads to the hospital, plazas, and gardens beyond.
The Central Green Spine gathers patients and visitors along a welcoming allée.
The central green orients visitors and facilitates wayfinding throughout the site while offering scenic views, outdoor dining areas, and lush plantings.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Visual and physical connections to nature fundamentally enhance the patient and staff experience and create a healthier work environment.
Walking trails provide visitors and staff direct access to preserved woodlands.
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Views of nature abound throughout the hospital.
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This entry corridor allows hospital staff to decompress before and after a strenuous workday through a meandering walkway and picturesque views of nature.
University of Florida, Clinical
Translational Research Building
Gainesville, Florida
Client: University of Florida
Size: .56 Acres
Completion Date: 2013
― WHAT IT IS
Healing gardens for patients and researchers provide respite while sustaining life on site and within the watershed.
The stormwater pond provides a reflective image of the building and landscape beyond.
Water infiltration played a large role in site design and was made visible through detention basins and infiltration zones.
View of the gardens from above.
The leaf framework carries stormwater through veinlike channels into a central creek, which flows into a retention pond.
Native wildflowers require minimal water and increase pollinator activity.
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Inspired by the vein patterns in leaves, this project’s stormwater filtration network is made legible to occupants.
King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
Riyadh - Al Hasa, Saudi Arabia
Client: National Guard Health Affairs KSA
Size: 198 hectares
Completion Date: 2013
Sustainability: LEED Gold ®
The central plaza’s paving design, derived from Islamic geometric patterns, holds a crescent shaped water feature oriented toward Mecca.
The Riyadh campus is organized along two green spines; one connecting student and faculty housing to the academic campus, the other linking the academic and medical districts.
A series of small gardens and courtyards are overlaid along the green spines.
― WHAT IT IS
Outdoor oases moderate the harsh desert climate and meet the university’s need for comfortable collaboration space.
Willson Hospice House
Albany, Georgia
Client: Phoebe Putney Memorial Health System
Size: 210 acres
Completion Date: 2010
Sustainability: LEED Silver ®
Awards:
AIA National Healthcare Design Awards, 2012.
Honor Award, Georgia ASLA, 2012
First Healthcare Facility in the World Designated a Certified Silver Audubon International Signature Sanctuary, 2010.
― WHAT IT IS
Gardens for rest and reflection, spaces for gathering or solitude — all within a peaceful setting where built and natural palettes meet.
The outdoor chapel benches are made of reclaimed lumber that was donated to the project.
The most significant garden is centered on the chapel pod. A specimen Ginko tree provides the focus from the Chapel Garden and beyond.
Hospice House
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Garden views and access to nature provide a tangible comfort to patients and have cut medication needs in half.
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A courtyard composed of symbolic paving details, shade structures, and seating.
The buildings, roads, and access points were sited to minimize the construction footprint and promote biodiversity.
Visitors and staff can experience the preserved woodlands through a series of paths and boardwalks.
Nature paths lead patients and guests to scenic viewing and meditation areas.
Since 1935, we’ve believed that design has the power to make the world a better, more beautiful place.
That’s why clients and community members on nearly every continent partner with us to design healthy, happy places in which to live, learn, work, play, and heal. We’re passionate about human-centered design, and how design can impact our lives through sustainability, resilience, well-being, diversity and inclusion, and mobility. And we’re committed to advancing design through research. As a matter of fact, in 2018, Fast Company named us one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in Architecture. Our team of 2,500 professionals provides worldwide interdisciplinary services in architecture, interior design, branded environments, urban design, landscape architecture, and more, and includes our partners Portland, Nelson\Nygaard, Genesis Planning, and Pierre-Yves Rochon (PYR).
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