Frau Gerolds Garten

This guide to Frau Gerolds Garten in Zurich starts in the summer of 2012, when eighteen anthracite-black shipping containers arrived on a strip of dead railway land behind Hardbrucke station on a lease the city had capped at five years. You'll hear how landscape designer Luzia Rodriguez treated that deadline as a design brief, filling a quarter of the site with movable pots, bins and raised beds so kitchen staff could cut herbs and vegetables steps from the stove. Stand among the containers and beds and consider what a five-year experiment on borrowed ground was ever supposed to become.