AHBE Landscape Architects, an esteemed Los Angelesbased firm known for its expertise in designing thoughtful, evocative landscapes that allow for contemplation and reflection has created a Healing Garden at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for patients, hospital staff, and visiting families and friends.
Using the metaphor of human skin, AHBE developed a multilayered landscape solution that protects the existing building’s structural and mechanical integrity and accounts for an existing drainage system, emergency access, lighting and way finding, as well as extreme weather conditions. The unique solution transformed a concrete plaza above a multi-story garage into a unique, green roof.
“The Cedars-Sinai Healing Garden Plaza project presented several constraints that encouraged innovative thinking,” explains Calvin Abe, FASLA, RLA, who led the project team on behalf of AHBE Landscape Architects from concept design through construction administration. “The terraces had previously been unused for many years. We aimed to heal the epidermis of the complex by grafting a piece of living, breathing landscape above the existing parking decks.”
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