One of the challenges of designing gardens in an urban context is balancing privacy with openness. Stepping out onto a rooftop garden should come with a sense of peace and relief, but that can be hard to conjure in such a dense and bustling city. With that in mind, we established an intimate space with a semi-permeable wall of mature deciduous trees, shrubs, and climbing vine walls. The Ipe wood modular decking, cedar planters full of perennials, bulbs, and shrubs, and a productive vegetable garden make residents feel as if they are suddenly in the countryside.