Landscape Architect & Specifier News

APR 2013

LASN is a photographically oriented, professional journal featuring topics of concern and state-of-the-art projects designed or influenced by registered Landscape Architects.

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Located in Cleveland���s University Hospitals��� downtown Case Medical campus, the new Seidman Cancer Center (SCC) represents an important consolidation of cancer care, from diagnosis to inpatient and outpatient treatment. Location of the SCC on a previously underutilized street corner of the overall Case Medical Campus allowed a transformation to the campus��� primary entrance and image. Detailed patient input showed a desire for a place of calm to recharge the spirit, a green space with lots of plants, somewhere to escape even for a moment, allowing those journeying with cancer something to hang onto; a place to feel a rock���s strength and to be inspired with quotes. That place is the new 13,000 sq. ft. Schneider Healing Garden at the front door of the Seidman Cancer Center, bounded on two sides by busy Euclid Avenue and newly realigned UH Drive. The Seidman Cancer Center overlooks the garden, redefining the view for thousands of patients in the palliative care rooms, and staff from SCC and adjacent buildings, and giving family members a contemplative place to walk to help relieve stress. Combined with the staff/management desire to make a tangible commitment to creating positive patient experience, the garden���s design puts patient needs at its heart, creating an exterior healing environment that shows the mission and values of the organization. Clarity of circulation and placement of the garden at the entry invites one and all to enjoy the garden. While weighing all the input for what the garden should be, landscape architect Virginia Burt found inspiration in A.A. Milne���s poem ���Halfway Down.��� Milne (1882 ���1956) is the British author British author best known for his two Winnie-the-Pooh books. Halfway up the stairs Isn���t up, And isn���t down. It isn���t in the nursery, It isn���t in the town. All sorts of funny thoughts Run round my head: It really isn���t Anywhere! It���s somewhere else Instead! RGB LED grazers (Color Kinetics, Powercore by Philips) set contemporary interior walls aglow. Light ticks the wall-top railing, and dusts trees outside the garden with soft color, an amenity to garden users, pedestrians and drive-by traffic. 70 Landscape Architect and Specifier News

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