Healing garden implementation in rehabilitation centre at Jakarta as a concept of eco-architecture design

Abstract

This paper presents a study of the implementation of ways to create landscapes that can provide healing effects created from the existence of the landscape itself. The background of this study is nowadays architectural development does not support ecology, people start to build something that will benefit in the market and ignore the importance of the state of the organic environment for the overall environment and landscapes only play a role in natural beauty. So, promoting and applying the elements of the garden and plants as a part of healing garden becomes an important issue and it must be borne in mind when designing landscapes in order to support eco architecture awareness. This paper provides essential benefit for humankind through healing garden. Precisely, the results of this paper indicate specific elements on plants' nature variety of place within the mentioned garden.