| In pursuiting "Garden City","Landscape City", many beautiful urban landscape wascreated in recent years. However, few of these projects was popular. Rapid economic and socialdevelopment brought a lot of unexpected side effects. The positive role of Plant Therapy forhuman health was gradually understood, recognized and accepted. This paper studied PlantTherapy in landscape architecture construction, provided some reference to solve the problemsabove.Plant Therapy research in this article contained Healing Landscape and HorticulturalTherapy. Healing Landscape provided the appropriate hardware facilities while HorticulturalTherapy provides a comprehensive software services. Healing Landscape helped people torestore physical and mental health with elaborated natural environment, and HorticulturalTherapy benefited from plants. Horticultural Therapy integrated with Landscape Therapywould work better.Designer should first consider how to meet the needs of the public, which was the startingpoint of the design as well as the destination. Based on the five senses of sight, hearing, smell,touch and taste sensory stimulation, to bring people’s psychological, physiological effects,which was the basis of landscape architecture.The aging of the population, sub-health and mental unhealthy became more and moreserious social problem, towards different age, health status, physical conditions andpsychological status of populations, discussed their physical and psychological characteristicsand needs, analysized their desired physical and mental care and specific environmentalrequirements, tried to find the corresponding point with Plant Therapy. Accordingly, putforward to different Healing Landscape strategies and Horticultural Therapy mode to adapt tothe different groups, designed and constructed differentiated Healing Landscape environment,used a variety of principles of Horticultural Therapy to meet the differentiated needs ofdifferent groups of people. Healing garden was the model to apply Plant Therapy in Landscape Architecture.High-quality Plant Therapy implementation space was the foundation to implement PlantTherapy. A well-designed Healing garden could stimulate people’s various sensory organs,cause deeper feelings and resonance. In order to adapt to different people and functionalcharacteristics, we should consider many factors and contents of planning concepts whendesigned Healing garden, more detailed and complex. In addition to the natural, ecological,aesthetic, economic, applicable aspects that general landscape design concept, more attentionshould be pay to people’s needs, to pursuit the harmony between man and nature.Put forward some suggestions to promote and carry out Horticultural Therapy, coveredthree levels of living environment, community environment and urban environment in theurban human settlements environment. Combined with excellent case both at home and abroad,discussed the successful healing garden, provided some ideas and methods available inlandscape construction for reference. |
