The architectural complex of modern Yiyang Garden in Guangzhou, China
With the intensification of social aging, the implementation of integrated medical and elderly care services has attracted increasing attention. Guangzhou, as the birthplace of Western medicine in China, is also the starting point for the development of modern Western medicine hospitals in the country. However, current research on the integration of medical and nursing care facilities primarily remains at the theoretical level, with a significant gap in historical research on such buildings in Guangdong province. Yiyang Garden, constructed in the 1920s on Ersha Island in Guangzhou, China, stands out as the first privately established medical and elderly care facility in the city. This article explores the development process, design concepts, planning layout, architectural features, and landscape layout of Yiyang Garden through methods such as current situation exploration and analysis, inductive classification, and comparative analysis. Compared with other medical and nursing care facilities established in China since the 21st century, it is evident that while Yiyang Garden has incorporated advanced Western medical technologies, it has also retained a substantial influence from traditional Chinese healing theories. The overall design of Yiyang Garden is a representative example of medical and nursing care architecture that focuses on the environment and patients’ feelings. As a modern sanatorium in Guangzhou, Yiyang Garden reflects the city’s approach to integrating medical and elderly care in the modern era. This study fills a significant gap in the historical research on Guangzhou’s medical and nursing care architecture and provides fundamental reference materials for exploring recuperation principles and architectural practices represented by Yiyang Garden during that period.
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