Month: July 2018
You’ve built it. Now what? (Hint: programming!)
The creation of a community green space is usually the result of a healthy blend of advocacy, community engagement, planning, cross-disciplinary collaborations—and good dose of sweat equity. Nonprofits and foundations (like us!) invested in this movement have focused on furnishing the evidence—the science that underscores nature’s health benefits and supporting resources to help communities advocate…
Nature is Sanctuary.
At a time when vitriol too often eclipses tolerance; when divides seem to only be widening—nature can serve as a potent equalizer. It works to scaffold—lending support where and when it is most needed: when people are feeling isolated, unwelcomed, unaccepted for who they are. This kind of social isolation and fear is not only…
APA | Roof Labyrinth Rendering
3,000-square-foot green roof garden and rooftop labyrinth is open for public use on the roof of the American Psychological Association’s downtown Washington, D.C. building. This is considered to be the nation’s first urban green roof and labyrinth project. Below is the original rendering prepared by Farrand & English, Inc in Baltimore. …
AAMC healing garden rendering
Anne Arundel County Medical Center’s healing garden is filled with lush plantings, offering a holistic approach to healing—a quiet place of reflection for patients and families. Located in a secluded area, TKF’s signature pickel-barrel bench provides comfort, a view of a waterfall and an opportunity to record thoughts in a weatherproof journal. Here’s the rendering…
A Wider Circle | Sibley Plaza rendering
A Washington DC public housing complex turns to its residents, often low-income seniors, to help ideate a “peace garden” on the campus. The outcome includes raised garden beds filled with flowers and vegetables for residents., designed in ways that improve their health, facilitate feelings of self-worth, spiritual well-being and provide an emotional uplift while lessening the…
UMM Kernan Hospital rendering
The garden incorporates benches, a water feature with fish, a sensory garden, a medicinal herb garden and secluded activity areas with specialized gardening tools, trellises, arbors and planters. Explore the design for the University of Maryland’s Rehabilitation & Orthopaedic Institute’s Healing Garden at Kernan Hospital. …
Chesapeake Bay Foundation rendering
A long path canopied by vibrant trees, plants and flowers, leads to a destination point overlooking one of the many back creeks on the Chesapeake Bay. Here’s the design rendering for the Sacred Place at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. …
4th Street City Park rendering
A street-end park revitalized as a small sanctuary—a quiet place for contemplation and a proactive rain garden. This is the 4th Street City Park design. …
New short documentary film launches: A Road to Wellness
This Wednesday being the 4th of July, we feel it’s a particularly meaningful time to be sharing with you our latest film in the Nature Effect series: A Road to Wellness. It tells the story of The Green Road project; the result of a years-long effort to create a therapeutic nature space on the grounds of the…
