Commercial & Community  :  Healing & Therapeutic

This project creates healing outdoor spaces for an acute-care, inpatient psychiatric facility for children and adolescents. ZDA held design charrettes with staff, therapists, and administrators, identifying the need for outdoor seating areas in view of the hospital entrance which allowed for private conversations and the desire for staff access to private break space. The design maximized the construction budget to create three distinct gathering areas: a viewing garden and grotto adjacent to windows on the children's wing, a raised gravel patio with seating and shade trees outside the administrative wing, and a gazebo garden area with views and screening from the entry drive.

Design charrettes, landscape and garden design: ZDA. Landscape installation: Herman Landscape. Photography: ZDA.