Urban vegetable garden in the polder

design: Studio TOOP, together with Marilies Tuinontwerpen location: Amsterdam (Noord), NL status: built in 2007, Kooter Hoveniers foto’s: 2012, Jolanthe Lalkens The challenge for this garden in Amsterdam Noord was to create ample space for a vegetable garden while preserving the view and providing enough structure that the garden also looks good in the winter. Also, the goats and chickens in the back of the garden needed to be easily accessible, even when the grass was wet. Studio TOOP achieved this by creating a path that isn't a path and at a same time emphasizing the width of the garden with polder-esque lines.