Roundup: Container Exhibition Halls—Small Spaces That Deliver Huge Information (Part 1)-Ehang Container House

FANUC Container Exhibition Hall

The FANUC exhibition hall is assembled from several non-standard-sized containers. Configurations change with the size of each trade-show venue. Interiors use custom non-standard shipping containers; aluminum composite panels clad the exterior to raise the overall finish quality.

Emerging from the Cocoon—Xin Space Red Container Exhibition Hall

The Xin Space Party–Mass Service Station is a red container living room by the Dianpu River in Minhang District, Shanghai. Inside the Chunshen Lake Party–Mass Culture Park at 141 Xiubo Road, this red living room covers about 90 square meters. Walls display red culture and history knowledge—an engaging place for children to learn.

This red container living room sits in the culture park. To the left, the Xin Space Party–Mass Service Station is egg-shaped; the building also sits beside flower beds. Designers drew inspiration from creatures among the blooms—butterflies and pupae—likening the giant egg to a pupa and the red hall to a butterfly, creating this butterfly-form container building that symbolizes emerging from the cocoon. The overall design is full of playfulness.

Fengdong New City Hospital Container Exhibition Hall

It is called a miniature clone building because the container exhibition project takes the main tower of Fengdong New City Hospital as its reference—matching form, orientation, design language, and style, and deeply restoring the exterior. That has become one of Fengdong Hospital's most distinctive features.

Floors one and two belong to different box modules. Each independent box uses steel, cement fiberboard, and flooring with a thickness of more than 20 centimeters. Compared with temporary panel buildings, this structure performs far better in sound insulation, heat insulation, and thermal retention.

Yangsigang Urban Runway

From above, the T-shaped runway is striking: beside the river, a row of eight standard basketball courts sits on the crossbar of the T. Each court's backdrop is a giant Peking Opera face mask—eye-catching from afar. Peking Opera masks paired with intense basketball feel both trendy and full of energy; this is a top competition spot for nearby young people.

Along one side of the T runway is a row of Hanyang Crafts showcase shops converted from containers, gathering well-known brands such as Jianmin Yekaitai, Supor, McCormick, and Yuzhiyin, plus a Hanyang Crafts trendy market with coffee, beer, succulents, handmade goods, intangible cultural heritage, and other fashion elements.

HSBC Digital Container Booth

HSBC unveiled a new booth on the theme "The Future of Trade" at the China International Import Expo. With "digital containers" as the design concept and visual spine, smart finance leads trade transformation and innovation, exploring future trade trends through "Meet the Future," "Touch the Future," and "Navigate the Future."

The iconic element of international trade—the container—receives a fresh digital reading. Giant LED screens on the three-story container exterior present specially produced thematic videos covering the seven industries in focus at the Expo, plus global trade, digital innovation, personal finance, and more—showing HSBC's brand vision and commitment to future trade, and echoing the Expo theme "New Era, Shared Future."

Peanuts / Snoopy 70th Anniversary Touring Special Exhibition

Perhaps every adult still hides a child inside—so large comic exhibitions are hard to resist. The Peanuts / Snoopy 70th Anniversary Touring Special Exhibition opened in Taichung this year, built with modular buildings that are movable, easy to transport, and quick to erect.

The touring show sits at Taichung Calligraphy Greenway Plaza, 534 Yingcai Road, West District, Taichung. A nearby Chopper pop-up store was still running, drawing even larger crowds. Snoopy brought fans plenty of limited merchandise and a limited 70th-anniversary commemorative coin set, plus giant photo billboards wrapped on container surfaces and a giant gashapon machine—turning the site into a viral check-in spot.

The project prints classic graphics from different years on container outer walls; the rectangular shell is a natural display wall. On another side of the modules is a 70th-anniversary themed photo zone, so fans can revisit different themes on all four walls and take commemorative photos.

Suzhou Guanqian Little Park XPORT

Little Park sits on Guanqian Street in Gusu District, Suzhou—the heart of the old city. Compared with many new and old parks in Suzhou, it is modest in scale and content, yet this place that feels more like a small plaza is surrounded by theaters, storytelling halls, playhouses, and the People's Department Store. Since the 1920s, Little Park has been familiar to Suzhou residents. This year the downtown park became a trendy bazaar; inserted containers injected vitality into the old-city commercial street. Now, with Design Week, Little Park is empowered by design again and reappears with a new label and look.

In the upgrade, existing containers were linked and regrouped. An artistic approach shaped three cultural-creative exhibition halls that cluster or wind and connect—a contemporary reading of the winding courtyards and corridors of Suzhou gardens. Above the hall cluster, a canopy of yellow drapes brings a unique character and underscores Little Park's role as a cultural landmark on Guanqian Street; people arriving from every city street are drawn by the striking canopy. By strengthening the strong geometry and garden-tour experience of this temporary building group, the design seeks a relatively quiet cultural-creative place amid the busy commercial street—so visitors feel culture while touring and nature through design.

Nanjing University of the Arts School of Design Container Exhibition Hall

On the afternoon of May 20, 2021, the opening ceremony of the "Xinyue Shan Ha—She Ethnic Culture Design Innovation Exhibition" was successfully held at the School of Design container exhibition hall of Nanjing University of the Arts.