The Three Minimum Parks
SS 2026
Studio CIAx3MP – Creativity, Imagination, Art, for Three Minimum Parks
Instructors: Professor Valerio Morabito and Adela Chmelova
Imagination and creativity, like all human abilities, must be continuously trained in order to be used effectively and precisely. For this reason, students are asked to design three Minimum Parks, each measuring 20 × 40 meters.
The three parks are developed according to specific themes:
1. The Park of Trees: a Minimum Park in which students organize space by planting nine trees and designing a morphology connected to a system of paths.
2. The Park of Shadow: a Minimum Park focused on collective spaces, where students design pergolas and shaded areas, integrating three trees.
3. The Park of Art: a Minimum Park in which students combine art and ecology by
creating new landscape scenarios and inserting five trees.
Each park implicitly contains aspects of the other two.
Working Methodology
From the first class, students are required to draw freehand in the classroom under the guidance of the instructors. These drawings are directly related to the three park typologies.
Students will then produce physical study models of their projects during class. These models, together with freehand drawings, digital drawings, and other representational tools, will support the development and presentation of the projects during the final review.
Based on the models, students will produce site-adapted plans for the selected cities, followed by a series of sections for each park.
Required Outputs
1. One physical model at 1:100 scale
2. Plans at 1:200 and 1:100 scale
3. Sections at 1:50 and 1:20 scale
For all interested to join atelier Morabito (applied through the official way):
Please send us your motivation letter where you describe why you want to take a part in our studio. Add a link to your portfolio / school web. English only. Thank you.
valerio.morabito@unirc.it / adela.chmelova@fa.cvut.cz
The whole assignment available for download below.