The concept of building a container shopping mall comes from the container home. Since the traditional building concept can no longer keep up with the trend of fashion and innovation, real estate developers have completely rethought its alternative. Building a container shopping mall is one of the new ideas. It is green, environmentally friendly and very flexible. Compared with traditional building, it can provide more choices for real estate development companies. A shopping mall made of flat pack container house can also be time-saving,labor-saving,low cost and high quality.

In recent years, there are a large amount of largest container shopping malls popping up in southeast Asia.

No. 1
Samanea Container Shopping Mall from Indonesia
Location: Tangerang, Jakarta, Indonesia

In order to maxify the land use and develop the local economy, Indonesia transferred 96,868 ㎡of wasteland into a shopping mall with only 3 months. It is made of 450 pcs of flat pack container houses. All container houses were the whole prefabricated kits and well designed with wire and drainage layout from 1 china factory. Due to the whole-process local guide and installation service from its supplier, it reduced a lot of troubles in local construction site and make it fast assemble, which sets a milestone to complete the construction of the largest Southeast Asian container shopping mall in 3 months. It is comprised of 2 sectors, one big market with a number of container shops, container restaurants, one big industrial park with a lot of container offices.From the outside surface, all containers uses the same shape with a full glass design and 4 traditional festival colour, which creates a harmonious and unified beauty.

No. 2
Thailand Art BoxBangkok
Location: Chuvit Garden, Sukhumvit 10 Alley, Khlong Toei, Bangkok, Thailand
If you want to experience the nightlife, the Art BoxBangkok container shopping mall is your good choice. It opens from 4pm to midnight. variety of open-style container stores offer various local delicious food , fashion accessories and clothes , traditional handcrafts. The open-style idea derived from the nature of flat pack container house,which has 4 detachable walls with flexible design. Creative container stores well merged with its surroundings make the whole park full of harmonious beauty .

No. 3
Jet’s Container night market
Location: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
On the purpose of bringing a unique night market to the citizens and attracting more foreign tourists to visit Phnom Penh, Cambodia established its first container night market. It covers an area of about 1 hectare. It converted shipping containers into stalls and leases them to vendors to do business. Each shipping container consists of 3 or 4 stalls. The rental price of each stall is from US $ 300 to US $ 350 per month. They can be rent as container shop, container restaurant, container bar, cafe and so on. Each store has a different style and color, and the store owners can design their individual shops as they need. Although it's just a night market,all the stores are very delicately decorated, which makes you feel a bit of art in the noisy crowd.