Children’s Spectrum Garden

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Landscape Architecture Lawn and Garden, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Concept Statement:

Providing an interactive, therapeutic environment for neurodiverse children to explore and regulate emotional, social and sensory experiences.  Exploration of these experiences will be tiered and progressive based intensity levels to allow for individual preference and choice, giving a therapeutic approach to the garden.

Breakdown of Sensory Zones by Intensity Level:

Sensory Intensity Design Typology:

Design Iterations by Sensory Intensity:

Final Layout based on Intensity Zones:

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Children’s Spectrum Garden

Providing An interactive, therapeutic environment for neurodiverse children to explore and regulate emotional,social and sensory experiences.

Baseplan

Research

Caring Local Biodiversity in a healing garder_Scartazza_Mancini_Proiette

Design guidelines of a therapeutic garden for autistic children

Designing an Impactful Sensory Garden

GreenSpaces_Gaudion_Mcginley

Nature as a healer for autistic children_Hadeer Abd-El-Razak Barakat_Ali Bakr_Zeyad El-Sayad

Program Map **Intensity levels developed with assistance of Autism Researcher and Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Connor Kerns

Program Components

Early Site IterationsFirst Iteration baseplan with program componentsInserted into context map

Landscape Architecture Annex Lawn and Garden

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