The Landscape Creation and Integration in Design and Urban Planning of Medical Institutions

Abstract

The article reveals advanced all over the world approach to architecture and urban planning design of hospitals with active usage of landscape. The newest examples of competitive and already implemented projects of medical facilities are examined, which clearly illustrate the active integration of natural and artificial reservoirs, peculiarities of natural and formation process of explicit artificial landscape in the environment of medical institutions. The article is aimed at sticking the urban planners’ attention at the importance of the design and integration of the natural already exicting including landscape design approach into the hospitals’ design in order to strengthen the therapeutic effect with the exterior of the medical building and the public welfare of its location.