The project explores the role that landscape can play in the physical and psychological healing process, using Yantai Yeda hospital and its surroundings as a site to test various methodologies. The hospital sits near the coast of Shandong Province, China, within walking distance of the Bohai Sea. Connections to the surrounding natural landscape are disrupted by construction sites and a busy highway.

A series of new linear landscapes are proposed, linking the hospital and surrounding residential area to the sea front. Each pier has a different character. Some aim to improve the general wellbeing of the local residents with sports facilities and botanical gardens, whilst others are designed to specifically enhance the healing process of various illnesses. A central pier draws a line directly from inside the hospital complex, over the road and out to sea.

This new landscape provides an accessible sensory garden for the hospital, enabling the most vulnerable patients, their visitors and the medical staff to take a walk out to sea and back, all without leaving the protected environment of the hospital. The pier is lined with raised beds planted with medicinal herbs, and sheltered seating areas provide places to rest and socialise.