| With the urban living pace growing rapid,people’s mental stress has also been increasing,and both social and natural environment are facing tremendous challenges.The deficiency of the urban space for outdoor activities and forestation rate has limited the scope for people to undertake outdoor activities,reduced the chance for people to get in touch with nature,resulted in the stress coming out of daily life and work could not be released.With the development of social civilization and modern medical science,people are more aware of the significance of health and the beauty of nature.As early as over 2000 years ago,it has already been clearly proposed in “The Internal Canon of Medicine” that the quality of environment determines the sickness and health of people,and the nature and humankind are united entities.The gardening therapy as a new natural healing method,has been developing conforming to the tide of times,which has remarkable effects regarding the precaution and adjunctive therapies of physical and mental diseases,and could also beautify the environment and cleanse the air.Therefore,it has been described as one of the “public facilities” that is essential for modern cities.In China,the existing population of over 200 million,and maintained a high growth rate,According to the international standard for the division of aging society(the population of aging people who are 60 years old or above occupies 10% of the total population,or the population of aging people who are 65 years old or above occupies 7% of the total population),China has already stepped into an aging society.The primary question coming out of the entrance into aging society for China to face is that it will be a significant challenge in terms of the living care and rehabilitation nursing for the aging people.Moreover,the problems existed in aging people who are 60 years old or above include: physical function deterioration,prone chronic diseases,hypertension,dyslipidemia,heart diseases,rheumatoid arthritis,etc.;it also needs the same attention for aging people about the psychological state,loneliness,anxiety,losing self value,and the obvious fear for death.Other materials show that autism has become one of the diseases that largely affects children’s health.The total number of children with autism has been growing by year,currently the confirmed total number of children with autism has reached 1.6 million,and there are still circumstances that are not yet confirmed.Autism belongs to the category of mental illness,prognosis effect could be improved through early trainings,the development of brain could be altered through means of intervention,in order to adjust physical and mental health of children.The physical and mental health as well as the healthcare methods of the special communities demands the attention from the entire society,which is also an obligatory requirement for the healthy communities in the society.With the gardening therapy combined with the interactive landscape design,targeting the design for social disadvantaged communities such as aging people,children with autism and the sub-health group,through the theoretical analysis in terms of the gardening therapy and interactive landscape,the planning and conception of the gardening experiential landscape which meets the special needs of the disadvantaged communities has been proposed.Five senses has been applied in the design,which means people’s sensory perceptual system could be awakened through the five senses,and the experiential landscape design could be undertaken based on the gardening therapy.Different from the general landscape design,the characteristics of the gardening experiential interactive landscape lies in the stronger prominence in terms of interactivity,which could create a gardening landscape design with interactive experiences of multi-directions and multi-senses.The interactive landscape belongs to the design of interactivity,which can facilitate the participation degree and drag close the distance between humankind and environment.Taking the user as the starting point,and being people-oriented,it has been designed exclusively for special communities based on the satisfaction of the use for the normal people,which strives to provide a natural and healthy gardening experiential place in aspects of body functionality,mental health,etc.The gardening therapy has just been about to start in China,which is still under the initial phase,and the construction of gardening therapy specifically for healthcare is extremely rare.The gardening healthcare experiential landscape design for the Henan Health Island is one of those attempts,which also include the combination of the gardening therapy and interactive landscape.In a time when the public culture is rapidly developing,the increasing needs from both physical and mental lives have proposed a higher requirement,and design is not only a tool of beautifying the environment,but also offers the functions of service and guidance in the aspect of changing and leading people’s lives. |
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