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Journal of Chinese

Architecture and Urbanism

ORIGINAL ARTICLE
The architectural complex of modern Yiyang

Garden in Guangzhou, China

Chunrou Zheng and Juan Fu*
School of Architecture, State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science, South China University
of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
(This article belongs to the Special Issue: Cultural Characteristics and Application of Adaptive
Inheritance Technology to Traditional Chinese Rural Areas)

Abstract
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
*Corresponding author: methods such as current situation exploration and analysis, inductive classification,
Juan Fu and comparative analysis. Compared with other medical and nursing care facilities
(jfu@scut.edu.cn) established in China since the 21 century, it is evident that while Yiyang Garden
st
Citation: Zheng, C. & Fu, J. has incorporated advanced Western medical technologies, it has also retained a
(2024). The architectural complex substantial influence from traditional Chinese healing theories. The overall design of
of modern Yiyang Garden in Yiyang Garden is a representative example of medical and nursing care architecture
Guangzhou, China. Journal of
Chinese Architecture and Urbanism, that focuses on the environment and patients’ feelings. As a modern sanatorium in
6(4), 2830. Guangzhou, Yiyang Garden reflects the city’s approach to integrating medical and
https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.2830 elderly care in the modern era. This study fills a significant gap in the historical research
Received: January 26, 2024 on Guangzhou’s medical and nursing care architecture and provides fundamental
Accepted: June 6, 2024 reference materials for exploring recuperation principles and architectural practices
represented by Yiyang Garden during that period.
Published Online: September 24,
2024
Copyright: © 2024 Author(s). Keywords: Guangzhou; Yiyang Garden; Modern architecture; Integrated medical and
This is an open-access article nursing care services
distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution-
Non-Commercial 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits all
non-commercial use, distribution, 1. Introduction
and reproduction in any medium,
provided the original work is With the rapid growth of the elderly population, China is swiftly becoming an aging
properly cited. society. However, due to its relatively late start, China’s current system and concept of
Publisher’s Note: AccScience integrating medical and nursing care lag behind (Zheng et al., 2019). Faced with the
Publishing remains neutral with dual challenges of an accelerating aging process and an imperfect social security and
regard to jurisdictional claims in
published maps and institutional health-care system, the integration of medical and nursing care has become an inevitable
affiliations. trend (Cui et al., 2018). According to the records in the Guangzhou Chronicle (Shen

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