THE ANALYSIS OF HEALING GARDENS’ APPLICABILITY: EGE UNIVERSITY HOSPİTAL AS A CASE STUDY
Project no. 977 · Status: Kapanmış · 2017
Summary
In this study, Ege University Hospital in İzmir analyses the physical competence of the garden within the scope of landscape design. The main material of the research, Ege University Hospital garden, is a field - a case study. The method of research has three stages. In the first stage, the physical competency form created by the researcher during the field, observations were filled. The second stage is built on a systematic observation protocol on a representative user sample (doctors, nurses, administrative staff, medical school students, patients, patient relatives, visitors, etc.) carried out at the university hospital. In this context, the observation period of the research covers the period between May – June 2019 and November – December 2019. During the data collection process, Ege University Hospital garden was divided into 7 regions and comprehensive analysis was carried out. At the last stage of this whole process, the findings were evaluated and the qualities in the observation table benefiting from Sakıcı (2009) were scored according to the regions of the hospital garden. As a result, the physical competence of the current state of the hospital garden was determined as 35.1% (insufficient) to be expressed numerically. Strategies have been developed in the results and suggestions section to improve the situation. As the product of the result, ‘landscape master plan’ was added to the suggestions and it was thought that the improvement rate could be increased by 45% (partially successful). The possible construction sites for “healing gardens” are determined according to the master plan and suitable plant species for Ege University is proposed. Coordination Unit of Scientific P,Research Projects, Project No: 17-ZRF-009