The goal of the Landscape Master Plan for the public Vienna North Hospital was to offer pronounced health benefits to patients, staff and visitors. Composed of three primary areas - a restorative park, a public urban plaza, and a vehicular drop off and emergency service area - the goal was to offer access to "green" for all.
The park design blends the boundary between interior and exterior with a linear system that extends from inside the hospital building into series of therapeutic gardens, lawns, meadows, and water bodies that serve a vital role in the patient healing processes. Water is the primary connective element of the proposal as architecturally defined, serene, sunken interior gardens become a series of wetland surrounded pools that are an essential part of the site’s storm water management system.