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New Campus and Healing Garden by OLIN06-27-12 | News

New Campus and Healing Garden
by OLIN




The new campus and healing garden at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio by OLIN opened Wednesday, June 20th 2012.
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The newest addition to OLIN's design portfolio is the campus and healing gardens at the Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, a pediatric health care and research institute. The expansion project, which added 2.1 million square feet of clinical and research space, is the largest in U.S. history. In the first year alone the hospital is expected to welcome at least one million patients.

OLIN worked as part of a multidisciplinary team that included FKP Architects, local landscape architects MSI-KKG, engineers EMH&T and Trans Associates, environmental designer Ralph Appelbaum and Associates as well as Horton, Lees, Brogden Lighting Design.

Partner, Laurie Olin said, ''The project expands the principles of therapeutic gardens to the entire healthcare campus and neighboring community. Nationwide Children?EUR??,,????'?????<

The design for the new six-acre green space on the campus is located adjacent to historic Livingston Park. The series of healing gardens provide an amenity for young patients, their families and the medical staff. The plant material used includes lemon and chocolate mints, wild thyme, fluffy lamb's ear, coneflower and colorful snapdragon. There are also children's climbing sculptures, an area for story time and a moonlight garden.

At the main corridors on the surrounding avenues of Livingston and Parsons there is an allée of London Plane trees and disease resistant American Elms. The avenues have also been re-graded to integrate utility corridors and introduce bio-filtration rain gardens, which help absorb and filter stormwater runoff. Along Parsons Avenue, there are a series of illuminated vertical masts, which define the entry into the hospital campus.

The site also includes sustainable features, such as rainwater collection, storage and re-use as well as almost 2.5 increased acres of permeable surfacing throughout the campus.

For more information about OLIN and design projects please visit theolinstudio.com




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