OPERA OF REHABILITATION
ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION 2018
LOCATION: ABU DHABI , UAE
DESIGNED BY : IBRAHIM SAAD - ESLAM HAZEM
RENDERED BY : ESLAM HAZEM
HEALING GARDEN
Healing Garden Positive outcomes, including stress reduction, are derived through both passive and active nature connection and can take place indoors (via indoor plants, or from viewing nature through a window) and outdoors. A “rehabilitation garden” , “therapeutic garden” or “enabling garden” is a garden where physical, occupational, horticultural, and other therapies take place. A “restorative landscape” or “landscape for health” is any landscape wild or designed, large or small that facilitates human health and well-being.
Based on the concept that “positive distraction” and “soft fascination” through nature engagement lead to mental and cognitive restoration from the stress caused by “directed attention.” More recent research has identified enhanced immune functioning as a potential “central pathway” in explaining the connection between nature contact and positive health outcomes. Nature, in hospitals and elsewhere, plays a salutogenic role in both disease prevention and health promotion.
