Evaluation of landscape designs of hospital gardens in kastamonu.

Hospitals are health institutions proving care services for people. The people who go to a hospital for getting a medical treatment usually feel anxious, tense, and stressful. Hospital gardens must be exactly the opposite of hospital environment. They should help to calm and relax the patients, and provide a positive contribution to the treatment, as well. When designing the hospital gardens, aesthetic considerations should be kept in the background, and requests and needs of users should be given priority in the design approach. In this study, six hospital gardens in Kastamonu are investigated in detail with the help of experimental qualities. The problems of hospital gardens have been put forward with the help of scoring table, common problems of the hospitals have been identified, and solutions to these problems have been proposed. Keywords: Hospital garden, Healing garden, Therapeutic areas