In fact, domestic container box renovation buildings have always been based on the spontaneous use of waste boxes by users as the main way of existence, to a large extent, such buildings are only a temporary habitat, lack of necessary facilities and equipment, poor comfort. The large-scale container transformation enterprises are mainly used for foreign exports.
The post-disaster reconstruction of the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008 provided opportunities for the large-scale application of container buildings in China. Since then, the rapidly constructed architectural form of container building has gradually appeared in people's field of vision, and the Maersk Container Fraternity School that aided the construction of Wenchuan is one of the representatives. At the same time, the international financial crisis that broke out in 2008 reduced the volume of container trade, forcing some domestic enterprises that used to produce pure containers to focus on the construction of domestic container houses.
The mainland is the largest producer of containers, and it is also a major producer of container renovation buildings. Container remodeling buildings were introduced to the mainland in the 1990s. In China, container renovation buildings are generally referred to as "container houses", "container activity houses" or "living containers" and so on. Container housing has now become a very profitable industry, and all kinds of container transformation and sales information of production enterprises can be seen everywhere on the Internet and various media. Search for "container house" on GOOGLE, there are 19.4 million pieces of information, search for "container house for sale" appears 910,000 pieces of information, according to incomplete statistics, there are more than 600 large-scale production of container house enterprises, mainly distributed in the southeast coastal areas, such as the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, Tianjin and Tangshan and other cities with large port trade volumes, inland provincial capitals also have a lot of container housing production enterprises.
With the improvement of material living standards, the consumption and manufacturing market of container mobile housing is gradually expanding, from coastal areas with abundant second-hand container raw materials to inland areas.
With the application experience of foreign containers in the design and construction of container waste containers gradually introduced to the mainland, the development of container construction in the mainland has also shown a rapid development trend. However, unlike foreign containers presented in the identity of fashion and trend, the development of domestic container construction has two main directions:
(1) As a means to solve the problem of living cheaply, to meet people's demand for temporary buildings, emergency buildings, and low-cost buildings, with large-scale, low-cost, and rapid construction as the main development goals.
(2) Export-oriented, according to the container building design scheme and detailed drawings given by foreign markets, the container is transformed, processed, and then exported by sea. Construction is carried out on the basis of foreign normative standards.
Because container transportation is very convenient and simple to set up, in addition to the application of single containers, it is also possible to solve functional needs through the patchwork of multiple containers, including vertical combination, horizontal series, intersection, opening, misalignment and cantilevering.
*Some of the above pictures and information come from the Internet