According to the world's largest rent box company tex's chief executive officer John Maccarone estimates, from 2004 to 2008, only shipping container annual production volume of about 300 million TEU (international standard containers), and about 100 million TEU Container for old reasons out of the market. How to effectively deal with the waste container becomes a serious problem.

With the maturity of building technology and the development of the design concept, it is found that the container can be used as one kind of transportation tool, and it can also be used as a kind of space container. The horizontal and vertical standard box contains modern architectural beauty of simplicity, flexible and interesting building full of childlike innocence of childhood building blocks to build the game of interest. These characteristics given container architecture is one kind of unique appeal.

Container construction also has the following advantages:

1) security is high, usually the basic structure of the container unit is not easy to damage, with a strong waterproof ability, to ensure that people's personal and property safety.

2) green, container housing all of the unit can be manufactured in the factory complete, on-site installation is very convenient, reduce construction on the surrounding environment; steel and wood is the main material of container houses, the newspaper after the abolition of the high recovery rate, little pollution to the environment; in addition the use of containers of waste is one kind of resource re-use.

3) flexibility is strong, the container can be well adapted to the development of modern transport industry requirements, with a strong flexibility, easy to move and so on. When the container house is moved, the utility model is not required to be disassembled in large scale, and the utility model is very convenient in installation and disassembly.

4) strong adaptability, the container itself as a complete closed structure, the requirements of the surrounding facilities is not high, one of the ground conditions can meet the requirements of construction. Container houses can be configured independently of the power and hydraulic system, constitute a complete living space, the surrounding environment is not dependent on a strong adaptability, can be used in a variety of environments.

There have been some successful cases in the design and practice of container construction in foreign countries. Such as in 2006 the Dutch government to solve the housing problem of local students, container to the students built one a 1000 room, student apartments, which makes Amsterdam became the world has one most container these quarters seem not only fashion also provides one dormitory can provide facilities must be cut, the roof rainwater drainage facilities, heat dispersion and isolation facilities also one should taste. Currently in our country, the container architecture to emphasize cover wind and rain of the temporary shelter function, its added value low almost no aesthetic concern. They are mainly used in construction sites, mines, ports and other places. At the end of 2009, the city of Zhuhai, vocational and technical college officially opened one batch from the waste container transformation cycle of environmental protection and energy saving student apartments, although in low carbon, environmental protection, energy saving, safety and the development of circular economy unique, become Guangdong Province, the first and the first with circular concept of environmental protection and energy saving "green student apartments", but the construction simple and tedious, like one seat cold living machines. In fact, to strengthen the aesthetic care of this area, container construction can be a major supplement to educational buildings, tourist resort buildings, office buildings, commercial buildings and even people's daily life.