The Functional Efficiency of Healing Gardens Elements and its Impact on the Functional Aspect of Hospitals

Communication with nature has a positive effect on human health and well-being in different civilizations all time. But technological development caused the production of purely functional buildings that are far from communicating with nature, although some buildings contain gardens to achieve communication with nature, their elements are poor. Therefore, healing gardens are considered one of the main elements to raise the efficiency of the functional performance of the health building because they contain the resting places and healing departments. Therefore, this study focuses on determining the functional criteria for the elements of the garden that must be considered when designing the healing garden in hospitals. This research paper aims to develop a design strategy to activate the thought of therapeutic gardens within existing hospitals while achieving the functional efficiency of the elements of the therapeutic garden in accordance with the spaces available within the hospital, its nature, and its users. The research deals with the study of the concept of the therapeutic garden and the concept of functional efficiency of the therapeutic garden, in addition to the elements of functional and aesthetic efficiency of the therapeutic garden, and the functional performance standards of the therapeutic garden as a civilized space that must be taken into account during the design process, Finally, they reviewed a model of an existing treatment garden classified globally and tried to apply these elements to the Oncology Center at Mansoura University as an existing building that does not contain any therapeutic garden by developing a design strategy to create a therapeutic garden with functional efficiency for its elements to raise the functional performance of the hospital.