Landscape planning of hospital construction related green areas - current trends

Abstract

Nature has been venerated since ancient times for its beneficial effects on human health from a holistic point of view. With the progress of science and technology, man has forgotten to look for healing in nature, sanitary facilities evolving in to a real industrial plant for health, the rigour of medical procedures and specialty of pharmaceutical synthesis products exclude almost brutal in most cases anything can we called healing effect of nature through what she gives us. Studies on the subject have demonstrated curative role of landscape and gave a new direction on designing medical centers. According with that, recently appeared so-called „therapeutic gardens” and „healing gardens”. This paper illustrates this tendency of returning to the therapeutic effects of the nature and compares the achievements of international medical centers with the first steps taken in the same direction in Romania.