The Urban Cottage Hospital Part 2 Project 2024 Lydia Brant De Montfort University | UK Can a new typology of healthcare be considered as a healing garden with community at the heart of its ethos? This proposal explores the concept of integrating a healthcare facility into an established residential community in Leicester, in the dense urban fabric of Belgrave. Such a proposal challenges the current design qualities of existing hospitals by addressing the need to move away from overly clinical, artificially lit, oppressed interiors and towards a form of architecture that focuses on homeliness, intimate community care, natural light, air purification and the importance of connections to nature. By presenting a variety of landscaping techniques from physic gardens to wildness community gardens, the new typology reintroduces green spaces back into the dense built environment of the city as well as presenting healthcare as a community-driven garden that is beneficial to the recovery and experience of patients, visitors and medical staff. Lydia Brant Tutor(s)