Roundup: Container Exhibition Halls, Small Spaces That Convey Massive Information (Part 2)-Ehang Container House

"Container Town" Presents "Voyages Connect the World"

At the 2022 China International Import Expo (CIIE), COSCO Shipping brought together 10 of its related overseas enterprises for a joint booth in the services trade zone, creating a "Container Town." The town's theme was "Voyages connect the world," centered on green, low-carbon, smart, and eco-friendly topics across port, shipping, and logistics supply chains. It fully showcased how shipping and logistics supply chains stably support and safeguard global trade, contributing to greater resilience in global industrial and supply chains.

"Tao Lifang" China Ceramics Industry Headquarters Base "Ceramics Exhibition Hall"

Tao Lifang is a corridor-style creative office space newly built at the China Ceramics Industry Headquarters Base, aiming to create through design a multi-level, multi-center, multi-link hub for culture and creativity. Located in the central zone of the China Ceramics Industry Headquarters Base, it offers high-ceiling floor designs tailored to different client needs, exhibition-hall layouts of 300-600 square meters on large open floors, and a 2,000-square-meter top-floor "soft furnishing pavilion." Office infrastructure is complete, with corridor-style passages and steel-structure staircases connecting floor by floor, plus high-speed business elevators for a comfortable work environment. Tao Lifang uses multi-level stepped container connections, builds three-dimensional display-window balconies, and combines three-dimensional logo displays to form a C-shaped enclosed plaza—creating a modern office space that unites creativity and design for specialty firms in design, soft furnishing, and large ceramic slabs.

Container elements in the main design give the overall scheme renewed vitality.

Haichijia Container Booth at the China Food Exhibition

For this show, to present their best side, Haichijia invested heavily to invite a professional domestic design team and create a striking booth. The novel design cleverly folds Haichijia's grand presence into an industrial look. Orange stands for a sincere heart for food—constant experimentation, endless tasting, pursuing the ultimate flavor in mind. The orange-and-black combo is fashionable yet steady, bold yet understated—among the most eye-catching booths on site.

"THE MIXC" Exhibition Hall

To create a color-concept district rich in international leisure atmosphere, awaken shared memories of the city, rediscover its beauty, and let people sense the collision of emotion and spirit in comfort and calm—restarting the city's colors—Shenyang MixC invited the Pantone Color Institute. Drawing on the 2020 Color of the Year blue and gathering creative experts' input, they custom-built a fashionable, trend-setting, globally appealing "THE MIXC" exhibition hall for a special period.

The entire exhibition area covers 255 m2. A 6-meter-high blue container installation is the main structure. It includes a multi-sensory color healing space popular for photos, a COLOR MARKET built for strangers who want to draw closer, and a restful living space with real lawn. The whole zone presents a city-scale carnival of color waves.

Swarovski Booth at CIIE

This was Swarovski's first appearance at CIIE. The booth featured a set of striking giant containers. Staff explained that these containers with dazzling metallic sheen, along with multiple heritage crystal works designed by the brand founder on display, were all air-freighted from the Austrian headquarters to Shanghai.

Tyson Foods Booth at CIIE

Tyson Foods' 2021 CIIE booth used eye-catching Tyson-red containers that crossed the ocean to China. The ground floor featured three zones: an American-style dining bar, chilled fresh display cases, and a live-stream room for fresh meat. Wood dining tables, chalkboard menus, vintage lightboxes, and other elements perfectly presented southern U.S. Arkansas flavor. The second floor had two lifelike American cattle figures—cute and lively—realistically recreating the premium source scene of Tyson American beef. Tyson Foods hoped visitors could taste "American beef delicacies" and experience American hospitality at such a carefully designed, vivid, and unique booth.

Shanghai "Extraordinary Design – Art in Motion Joint Exhibition"

At Shanghai Design Week's "Extraordinary Design – Art in Motion Joint Exhibition," a row of containers on the Jiuguang pedestrian street by Jing'an Temple mixed art and technology and drew plenty of eyes. Blending art and design into everyday scenes, redefining city, space, commerce, and culture, and opening a fresh dialogue between city and design—2020 Shanghai Design Week, in its ninth year, saw its first disruptive change: for the first time it left the Shanghai Exhibition Center, broke spatial boundaries, and moved into commercial districts, streets, and transit hubs as public space.

On the Jiuguang Department Store pedestrian street there were eight container "magic boxes" and one art installation. Organizers hoped this "Extraordinary Healing Street" of art container "magic boxes" would explore a new commercial form and urban sample for a high-quality art market in Shanghai.

Qicaichong Horticulture Exhibition Center

About 4 km east of Wenquan Town, Huancui District, Weihai, sits Shandong Qicaichong Horticulture Co., Ltd. It is 17 km in straight-line distance from downtown Weihai. The Shijia River, extending from Gushan Reservoir, flows past; mountains and waters are clear, fertile fields stretch green—natural scenery is beautiful. To facilitate nursery display and client reception, and to develop social functions for horticulture lectures, seminars, and training, the company built a Qicaichong Horticulture Exhibition Center in the nursery using containers as the main material.