ABSTRACT
The summer of 2015 saw the inauguration of Project Chemotherapy Outdoors, also known as the “Chemotuin” (Chemo-Garden), on the grounds of the Tergooi Hospital in Hilversum. This pavilion offers patients of the oncology department the possibility to receive chemotherapy treatments in the open air. This chapter explores the symbiosis between architecture and landscape, and describes the mutual necessity and reciprocal dependence between architecture and landscape as essential ingredients in realizing healing environments. While Western medicine primarily focuses on the cure of a disease as the ultimate goal, complementary medicine focuses instead on factors that promote health and well-being. The immediate environment contributes in this case to disease prevention and quality of life, whereby stress factors and health are in balance with one another. One methodology closely linked to the creation of an integrated design concept between architecture and landscape (meaning all types of life) is designing from a nature-inclusive perspective.
