As a new construction system, container architecture has shown great potential in building efficiency, economy and sustainability. Built for some faces, low efficiency, poor economic conditions and construction waste serious area, container build system to solve the problem of those areas provides new opportunities and possibilities. It can be said that even if container architecture is ultimately proved unable to be popularized as a mainstream form of architecture, the construction system could still be the best strategy for solving certain problems.

Staff of the construction industry to deepen understanding of the architecture design of container and understanding, this article analyzes the container from the perspective of architectural design architectural features, and discusses the design strategy for container architecture. The paper addresses the problems faced by container architecture, and explains how designers can face these problems through specific means. Container buildings facing problems including the function, form, construction efficiency, etc, must be provided by the building to meet the human use of elements, these elements is the basic for a container building quality evaluation indicators. Design strategy is the way to realize these elements and indicators, including container architecture space strategy, combination of basic unit components, modification of the structure and the structure design strategy, etc.

The design principle of active residence is: activity, compact, practical, comfortable. In this paper, it is divided into two types: standard container type and non-standard box-type activity house, which have different characteristics and adapt to the environment. On the analysis of the use of land and building materials and the economic development, per capita income, family life style, energy conservation, environmental protection and other aspects of reality, and connecting with the society on the "humble abode", "capsule apartment" and other hot topics for analysis, it is concluded that the future has a broad space for development in the market. It has a positive effect on improving people's life and advocating low carbon consumption. At the same time, the paper also analyzes the difficulties and conditions in the design and construction. Activities from the container type of residential space, structure, function, material, color, construction technology, energy conservation, environmental protection and so on various aspects put forward a series of solutions, so as to solve the contradiction between its comfort and compactness, and activity and the contradiction between traditional design and construction. In this paper, the author studies the change of living pattern of people under the conditions of the new period, emphatically studies the behavior of living, and summarizes some common principles from the design of concrete space. Under the guidance of the principle, focusing on the use of specific space, living space, morpheus space, the bathroom, kitchen space, etc., further put forward the design key points, and puts forward requirements in terms of energy conservation and emissions reduction, make it meet the world trend, reached the world advanced level.