Healing Gardens

Project Added: January 3, 2022
Project Point of Contact: [email protected]
a photo of a garden outside the medical center

A Therapeutic Landscape Experience for All

Arts-and Intersections:

Art, Health & Wellness

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Location:

Los Angeles, California

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Urban

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OVERVIEW

The Healing Gardens offer a serene, green experience to patients, visitors, and staff who can relax and soothe mind, body, and soul. Covering 82,500 square feet, the four gardens sit on what were two separate concrete decks atop the north and south garages.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Designed by AHBE Landscape Architects and constructed by Hensel Phelps over a 5-year period, the gardens feature meandering wooden paths that traverse a varied landscape of drought-tolerant plants, water features, shaded seating, and a steel-tube sculptural pavilion by Ball-Nogues Studio. The trellis’s organic form is spectacular both when viewed from the inside and from the patient rooms above.

At night, the gardens are equally welcoming. Footlights emphasize the curving design of the paths, and spotlights focus on the dramatic shapes of agaves and other plants. The choice of dry-landscape plantings, and an innovative groundwater system, is part of a campus-wide water-conservation effort that will save an estimated 28.6 million gallons annually.

PROJECT EVALUATION

Currently not available.