O jardim como espaço terapêutico: seus benefícios e suas qualidades espaciais paisagísticas

Abstract

This research studies the garden as a therapeutic space, dealing with concepts about restorative environments in the so-called therapeutic gardens and aims at understanding the theme by means of concepts that evaluate and interpret potentially therapeutic spaces, emphasizing their architectural and biological qualities, dealing with some theories on restorative environments, clarifying their spatial qualities that generate benefits, their recurring typologies  and their projectual characteristics, notably in the qualification of the built and garden areas. The methodology was based on the dialectic process, drawn on bibliography related with the concepts of space, place and landscape in which the so-called therapeutic gardens are set, searching for their unfoldings in empiricism. The theories unveiled by the bibliographic review, about places called therapeutic gardens, were reflected in the concreteness of the propositions, highlighting their spatial and biological qualities, seeking to point out the benefits in the user welfare process applied to a space built in the city of Campinas (SP). Therefore, the theoretical tools provided comprehension of the qualities in the unfoldings of the garden areas, confirming its applicability in the aforementioned case study, giving opportunity to expand and deepen the concepts and principles for analyzing spatial quality and effectiveness.