Thomas Tse, the designer who participated in the fifth "Dream House", continuing with the sixth season of 2019, focuses on non-native families, this year transformation a private “utopia” for a newly-married couple and two cats. In a tiny space that only 20㎡, which need to satisfy the practical aesthetics of physical part , comfort of spiritual level, and build new values about “home”.

Utopia
A space which can balance nature, people, pet and different aspect of requirements, fulfill their self-growth, at the same time harmonious coexistence and mutual influence, this is a very idealized state of society, the scene of a better social life for urbanites, that is the meanings of Urban Utopia.

About Tiny Utopia In The City

U FOR URBAN
The desire to find a spiritual home in an increasingly rich material life is a response to the need for happiness among urbanites. People who have a utopia world inside, want to close to nature, have reliable accompany and free-wheeling conversation. In this way, we can get out of each person who is lonely island, and connect to the world.

T FOR THOMAS
Utopia, written by Thomas More, a famous British thinker during the Renaissance, depicts a blueprint for a republic.Thomas Tse, the designer who participated in the fifth "Dream House", continuing with the sixth season of 2019，focuses on non-native families，this year transformation a private “utopia”for a newly-married couple and two cats. In a tiny space that only 20㎡, which need to satisfy the practical aesthetics of physical part ,comfort of spiritual level, and build new values about “home”.

O FOR OPTIMUM
Not to show of how particularly, and not be satisfied as old look, just to be the most appropriate existence for the present. 

Old Town Impression
Overlooking the surrounding old city of Guangzhou, full of tiles and Iron tent roof, this vision not only a material form, but also a deep cultural memory.

Eaves and Extend
The sky has always been the most important element of nature that we come into direct contact with, the visual extension of the whole building with the curved design of the eaves when our sight looks up.

P FOR PLAYGROUND

For People
Thinking about the scale in a minimal space framework, designer not only just make things smaller, dealing with the simple and complex spatial relationship based on the objective premise, at the same time, meet young couple need for a home atmosphere.

For Pet
Explore the home like an interesting playground with the vision of a cat, the plasticity and flexicity of the interior space are worth to exploring. Designer create different vision platform at each floor based on cats’ high habit. The transition from space to space could also be a functional module, the special structure meet the human and cat behavioral scale and visual sense.

I FOR INTIMATE
Home is an existence of physical dimension space which fulfillment of our daily activities and face our inner soul. To balance the relationship between family members, nature and residents.

Record and Scale
Time passed, all things merge together, building of a home is also the beginning of a home, let the past and the future, time and space to an encounter. 

The Cattery
The space segments made by different gap of the floor, multilevel spaces allow for more interaction between cats and people, and they can monitor the cat movement at any time. 

The Nature
In spite of the intense and busy society environment, we can still escape from the busy world, look at the open sky, create new value about home.

A FOR ACTIVATE
It’s the trend of current living environment development, blurring the boundary between architecture and nature, makes it closely integrated. The possibilities of a miniature house is endless, its potential can be expanded through innovative architecture approaches. To archive this, designer used an in-depth study of relationship between people, pet and nature to create the “grey space”, let “Tiny Utopia” light and clever blend in this fast-paced steel city.