Enhancing Well Being Through Recreational And Sensory Therapy In Landscape Design
GC001C-14SUS: Enhancing Well Being Through Recreational And Sensory Therapy In Landscape Design
Introduction
In Kuala Lumpur, two areas have been identified to be beneficial for the study: 1) housing area and 2) community facilities.
Outside of Kuala Lumpur, the study will concentrate on FELDA’s community-based rehabilitation units. A pilot study was done earlier for FELDA Palong in Negeri Sembilan where a sensory garden was proposed, hence the need to review if the project was done and whether a future project could assist with the Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) prototype for FELDA. Sensory Garden in a therapeutic context usually refers to a small garden that has been specially designed to fulfill the needs of a group of people who want to be involved in active gardening and who also enjoy the passive pleasures of being outdoors amongst plans (Gaskell, 1994).
Impact
- Expected outputs: design schemes and prototypes;
- Guidelines on sensory park design for Kuala Lumpur City Hall and FELDA
- Policy on landscape design
Challenges
- Poor quality of external environment in older housing estates.
- For community facilities, some new standards need to be devised for facilities which were not considered in the plan (former Kuala Lumpur 1984 Structure Plan), in particular, caring facilities relating to the aged and handicapped
Benefits
- People: Therapeutic experience for people with disadvantages, elderly peoples as well as public.
- Planet: Universal design which is the focus of this research would be beneficial to both environment and people.
- Profit: This research programme promotes design optimisation, sustainable use of resources
Principal Investigator
Lar. Shahida Shamsuddin (Faculty of Built Environment, UM)
shahida@um.edu.my