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The conversation focused on the diverse development space for container architecture.\n\nBelow is the Jiefang Daily report on this interview:\n\nRecent World Cup coverage drew attention to a striking fact: even stadiums can be built from containers. With technical progress, container applications have gone far beyond imagination. Beyond exhibitions, people can use them to build schools, libraries, and entire commercial streets.\n\nShanghai already has container buildings—street-side citizen service stations, Party building centers in plazas, and more. Reporters visited these distinctive structures and explored use cases, challenges, adaptability, and the roles they may play in future cities.\n\n**Eye-Catching Community Stations**\n\n![](https:\u002F\u002Fcaijing-img.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com\u002Fimport_1788800844421_d9xxs9ox_6800cf489f_db37d9ce2e.png)\n\nOn a mild winter day along Huangjinchengdao in Changning District, Shanghai, ginkgo trees turn gold. Yellow-green leaves scatter across the pedestrian-street paving; shops on both sides and a comfortable scale create an easy strolling atmosphere.\n\nAt the corner stands a neat little house with floor-to-ceiling glass doors facing passersby. Its warm yellow frame blends with Huangjinchengdao's overall look. This is the \"Rong-Gubei Station.\" Operator Dayu Yingzao positions it as a small community \"generator\" that sparks activities and builds warmer ties among residents, merchants, and visitors.\n\nOn weekends the little house is lively inside and out. Mothers organize charity sales; local merchants host parent-child flea markets. Neighbors share knowledge of traditional architecture, guide children in drawing, or plan robot experiences. In one year alone the station hosted more than 80 events.\n\nFew residents realize it is a container building. Today's container architecture is no longer the stereotype of a plain metal box—it can be rich in design.\n\nIn 2020, commissioned by relevant authorities, our company's cultural development company took on the Gubei Station project. The design aim was an open platform that shows the street's charm and supports co-governance—a shared space for community merchants and a lively stage anyone can create on. Walking the lanes, the designer heard many languages in this meeting place of Chinese and international friends; no traffic roar, only the ease of slow living; and Shanghai's famous ginkgo scenery at residents' doorsteps. The scheme drew on that place: warm ginkgo-yellow fused with the container cabin.\n\n![](https:\u002F\u002Fcaijing-img.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com\u002Fimport_1788801357258_jl1kg5g3_cf5d569c37_e2d6a2c194.jpg)\n\nThe facade facing the intersection is almost entirely floor-to-ceiling glass. The two side walls can open fully, turning the cabin into a three-sided open box suited to interactive events. With participatory design, the station holds the street's everyday stories. Main walls use 1.6 mm weathering steel; walls and alloy windows and doors were prefabricated in the factory, then doors and windows were joined after on-site lifting; rooftop solar panels meet lightweight power needs for lighting and air conditioning.\n\nDayu Yingzao's project lead Pu Ruijie still remembers a late night in November 2020 when a large truck delivered the cabin and a crane set it at the corner. Workers finished installation in two hours. From concept, approved design, and factory production to full delivery took only one month. Most effort went into communication, refining the scheme, and procedures; factory production took just a few days, and on-site build only a few hours.\n\nSuch small station units suit container buildings especially well: controllable cost, short construction cycles, steel structures resistant to corrosion, magnitude-8 earthquakes, and category-10 hurricanes. Most work is done in the factory, free of weather limits and site noise, so neighbors are not burdened by construction. Another key advantage: they need not occupy building-land quotas, approvals are shorter, no deep excavation is required, and original pedestrian paving stays intact. Container buildings therefore suit harsh conditions—sand, mud, tidal flats—or refined surfaces one does not want to dig up again.\n\n![](https:\u002F\u002Fcaijing-img.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com\u002Fimport_1788422141545_9m7acg06_5ea14da9e0_48871626d1.jpg)\n\nPu Ruijie summarizes two years of use at Gubei Station: street-facing, open, attractive, eye-catching, and highly interactive—like an art installation. Such units fit community generators, pop-ups, and exhibitions that draw people in quickly. Compared with building a traditional station house, container architecture is just right.\n\n**A Library Under Clear Skies**\n\nContainer markets and exhibitions are no longer rare—but how far can they go?\n\nIn 2018, the WIEE World Innovation and Entrepreneurship Expo opened at Tongji University's Jiading campus. It ran for nearly a year, with global participants and continuous forums, lectures, exhibitions, and creative exchanges. Did such scale and duration require a new large building complex? Organizers instead placed 111 containers on a 2,760 sq m site—enough for a year of exhibition use and easy to dismantle.\n\n![](https:\u002F\u002Fcaijing-img.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com\u002Fimport_1788417959811_dnw6k1pr_7a16dee189_d6e9d40eba.jpg)\n\nOur company's chief designer Dai Shengxiang led the build. On first seeing the site he found two large patches of unhardened mud and scattered waste. \"I thought, luckily it is containers—traditional construction from scratch would have been a nightmare.\" From organization, design, revisions, and approvals to completion took two months. Traditional building at this scale would likely need half a year or more. Early schemes simply lined up boxes; isolated containers lacked ensemble atmosphere, so the design shifted to a one- and two-story cluster—some with terraces, some stacked and interwoven for interest.\n\nChallenges followed. Organizers required real shipping containers, not factory-custom new units. Dai bought used containers at Baoshan Port. Dimensions were limited: interior height under 2.4 m, and after insulation and fit-out only about 2.1 m—uncomfortable alone. Joining, stacking, and interweaving many boxes, design softened the spatial feel.\n\nDrainage was another issue. Flat container roofs pool water. Even with waterproof coatings rain seeped in, so full welding was required. U-channels at box-to-glass joints forced water to \"detour,\" and roofs gained slopes. Each box needed full interior work—insulation, openings and wiring, air conditioning—down to the last detail. After custom paint, the exhibition zone won young visitors from around the world: open, flexible, multifunctional—exhibitions and workshops by day, a stage by night. The cluster stayed on campus for nearly a year.\n\nToday container building technology has advanced far. Personalized projects are mostly factory-custom, not recycled second-hand boxes. Metal panel heights from 2.4 m to 3.4 m are available, lengths can be joined as needed, interior finishes are mature, and full bathroom modules can be included.\n\nOur company's commercial director Chang Xiaojie described a campus library project in Suzhou: a distinctive two-story container building with clean lines and sky-like blue-and-white tones, as polished as an art gallery. Inside, a bright white lobby; the first-floor reading area has soft sofas, a large LED screen, and smart devices. A side book nook uses rich British-style interiors.\n\n![](https:\u002F\u002Fcaijing-img.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com\u002Fimport_1788422251917_r606vg1x_dd503c64c4_7692ca2ee9.jpg)\n\nUpstairs the mood shifts: Classic of Mountains and Seas motifs on the ceiling, traditional wood bookshelves and furniture creating a classic study feel. The second-floor terrace is prized—students read amid trees and sky. Rooftop solar panels power the library. Without being told, few would guess it is a container building. Visually and functionally, the interiors match or even surpass conventional buildings.\n\nUses for new container buildings are now wide: beyond exhibitions—bars, dining, homestays, commercial streets, industrial parks, schools, stadiums, emergency relief, and more. Materials and methods used in conventional interiors can move into container modules; comfort and aesthetics are no longer barriers.\n\nAt the Qatar World Cup, a stadium built with container architecture became a fully demountable large structure. Stands were joined from semi-open seating units—relatively simple in today's container field, needing little complex fit-out. Its greater value was showing that large buildings can also be flexible, lightweight, and recyclable—a showcase prototype.\n\n**Flexible \"Turns,\" Better Suited to the Future**\n\n![](https:\u002F\u002Fcaijing-img.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com\u002Fimport_1788802712849_lggbughw_e657aeaf85_d151ac118a.jpg)\n\nBy Chunshen Lake in Shanghai's Xinzhuang, bright red \"butterflies\" seem to flutter among the trees—the \"Red Living Room\" Party-mass service station built with container architecture. An elegant curved shell with vivid graphics breaks the stereotype that containers must be square boxes.\n\nDesigners chose containers for short procedures and build cycles, attractive form, controllable cost, and low-carbon benefits—and to avoid damaging the plaza's original paving. Interiors resemble conventional buildings and feel even brighter and more open.\n\nChang Xiaojie notes that custom shaped combo container buildings can be restored, rebuilt into other forms, or split into small modules for reuse. Our company has also delivered combo sales-office projects that need not be dismantled after use: when one site finishes, the whole group can be lifted and moved to another development for reuse.\n\n![](https:\u002F\u002Fcaijing-img.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com\u002Fimport_1788801079123_ulmzo3lo_fb258b42cd_9bb89ffe6e.jpg)\n\nContainer buildings have a theoretical life of about 25 years—enough for public, service, and commercial facilities. More creative parks and commercial streets are choosing them. Chang cites Haikou's Fengxiang 920 Container Night Market Plaza: 46.6 mu of land south of Yehai Avenue and west of Xiangxie Garden on then-undeveloped ground. After opening, the night market became an internet hit—smoke-free BBQ, late-night dining, viral shops, music cafes, shows, book bars, wedding photography, parking, and more.\n\nAnother case is a homestay in Jiaxing. From ground hardening to completion took about 45 days. Some worry container homes feel like sheds and cannot match hotel comfort—that is a misunderstanding. Custom boutique projects use personalized fine finishes: insulation, piping, wall panels—similar to conventional interiors—and can reach high-star hotel standards, with custom exterior paint that appeals to young guests. One reason this Jiaxing homestay chose containers was poor local geology: traditional foundations would take at least eight months, while containers need only a hardened surface layer.\n\nIn 2016, the General Office of the State Council issued guidance on vigorously developing prefabricated buildings, aiming for prefab to reach about 30% of new floor area in roughly ten years. 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