A one-off venue becomes a truckload of waste on teardown day.
CircoGreen Salon packs down into a single crate.
CircoGreen Salon turns the VIP lounge into a rentable circular product: curatorial-grade space at rental cost, with sustainability built in from the start.
Every important expo, forum, or annual gala wants a presentable VIP lounge to host speakers, dignitaries, and key clients. But a custom build usually means expensive one-off carpentry and large-format prints. The moment the event ends, the whole room becomes a truckload of waste. The well-funded version is not sustainable; the sustainable version rarely looks the part.
CircoGreen Salon uses reusable, modular materials to deliver a curatorial-grade space designed by an internationally awarded team, offered to organizers on a rental basis. No full custom-build budget, no teardown waste. Quality, budget, and sustainability finally hold together in the same room.
The rental model delivers a curatorial-grade VIP space for a fraction of a one-off custom build, leaving more resources for the event itself.
Designed by ChiHe Design's internationally awarded team. Not a temporary backdrop, but a space your guests remember, one that carries the weight of your brand.
Reusable and measurable. The carbon savings can be written directly into the organizer's sustainability communications and ESG disclosures as a verifiable result.
Raising both on-site quality and sustainable brand value for event organizers.
Four decisions shaped the space. Each one serves the guest in the room and the next venue at the same time.
AI TAIWAN is a hall of screens, data and light shows. The lounge answers in the opposite language: tropical botanical imagery, white gauze and solid wood benches. Guests step through an arched threshold and the pace of the expo drops away.
Dismantling was drawn into the plans from the start. Walls and ceiling hang on aluminium extrusion frames that release with screws, with no single-use carpentry anywhere in the room. Every material had its next destination confirmed before the visual design began.
Stretch fabric does the work of walls, ceiling and lightbox. Printed botanical drapes divide the meeting booths instead of partitions. Light passes through translucent layers, giving the room depth without heavy construction, and every surface folds flat for storage.
Six functional zones stand as independent modules: backdrop, side walls and ceiling, entrance arch, curtain booths, meeting booth and brand lightbox wall. They are designed to be reconfigured for the footprint of the next venue, so the lounge can move to a gala, a forum or a launch.
Not booth construction, but a curated circular VIP experience. Reusable, measurable, and waste-free at teardown.
Dye-sublimation stretch fabric replaces conventional PVC laminate and composite board, avoiding one-off carpentry and large-format prints. Modules can be re-installed, dismantled, and shipped again and again.
Every installation comes with a carbon footprint estimate and reduction report, based on Taiwan's Product Carbon Footprint Information Platform, ready to use in your sustainability communications and media coverage.
Spatial storytelling by an internationally awarded design team. A curated VIP experience that makes your brand memorable on site, not an engineering fit-out.
At AI TAIWAN Future Commerce Expo 2026, ChiHe Design was named an official co-curation partner and built the event's VIP Lounge with CircoGreen Salon.
Taiwan's largest B2B expo for AI applications and transformation solutions. The 2026 edition drew over 20,000 registered business visitors and over 150 matchmaking sessions, hosted for the 12th consecutive year by Business Next, the annual gathering for Taiwan's tech and business decision-makers.
Founded in 1999, BNEXT MEDIA publishes Business Next, Manager Today, and Shopping Design, and runs key communities including Meet Startup and Future Commerce. It is a core platform for Taiwan's technology and new-business discourse.
On a stage that gathers Taiwan's business decision-makers, circular design hosted the most important guests in the room. There is no more direct proof that sustainability can be premium.
We look forward to bringing CircoGreen Salon to the next major expo, forum, or brand event, in Taiwan and beyond.
By switching the display walls from conventional PVC laminate and composite board to dye-sublimation stretch fabric, we substantially cut single-use waste and carbon footprint. Total display output: approximately 272 m² of printed surface.
Figures cover the display output materials stage of this installation. Emission factors are secondary data from Taiwan's Product Carbon Footprint Information Platform. The baseline is an estimate assuming conventional materials at the same scale; equivalences are illustrative and actual results vary with each installation.
An open English summary of the CircoGreen Salon Sustainability Whitepaper (2026, Edition 01). The method, the material plan, the reporting map and the SDG targets, all on this page. The full English edition is free to download below.
| Comparison | Conventional PVC laminate + composite board (baseline) vs. dye-sublimation stretch fabric (used) |
|---|---|
| Quantity | 3,023 tsai of display output, approx. 272 m² |
| Emission factors | PVC laminate + composite board: 0.1805 kgCO₂e / tsai Dye-sublimation stretch fabric: 0.1125 kgCO₂e / tsai |
| Result | ≈ 546 → ≈ 340 kgCO₂e · ≈ 206 kgCO₂e avoided · ≈ −38% |
| Data source | Taiwan Product Carbon Footprint Information Platform (secondary data) |
| Scope | Materials stage of the display output only. Transport, on-site power, furniture and plants are excluded; they are reused and no reduction is claimed for them, so the estimate is conservative. |
| Baseline | 546 kgCO₂e is an estimate assuming conventional materials at the same scale, not a measured emission. The −38% applies to display output materials, not to the event as a whole. |
| Zone | Function | Max. size | After the show |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | Main backdrop wall | 496 × 297.6 cm × 4 | Planned: cut into keepsake tote bags |
| B / C | Side walls and ceiling system | 694.4 × 297.6 cm | Stored for redeployment |
| D / E | Entrance arch identity | 446.4 × 297.6 cm | Stored for redeployment |
| F | Fabric curtain partitions | 55 × 510 cm × 4 sets | Folded and stored |
| G | VIP meeting booth | 150 × 200 cm fabric screen | Stored for redeployment |
| H | Brand lightbox fabric wall | 180 × 200 cm × 2 | Stored for redeployment |
Life cycle: pre-design (destinations confirmed first) → modular design → 3-day use (24–26 June 2026) → screw-out dismantling → storage → redeployment. Each reuse lowers the per-event footprint of the modules; the value of a circular lounge shows at the Nth event, not the first.
| GRI disclosure | What this project provides | Citable data |
|---|---|---|
| GRI 301-2 · Recycled input materials | Circular material system; display output fully reusable | 272 m² / 3,023 tsai on reusable fabric |
| GRI 305-5 · Reduction of GHG emissions | Material substitution footprint reduction | ≈ 206 kgCO₂e avoided (−38%, display output materials stage) |
| GRI 306-2 · Management of waste impacts | Zero-waste dismantling by design; destination table above | Single-use waste after the show close to zero |
Project-level, materials-stage estimate on secondary data: suitable as evidence of sustainability actions, not a substitute for an organizational GHG inventory (ISO 14064-1).
Extended alignment, stated separately: SDG 12.6 (sustainability reporting, via the citation guide) and SDG 13.3 (climate awareness, via a visitor survey from the next redeployment, not yet verified).
CircoGreen VIP Lounge: a reusable, circular venue built to carry memories.
The full build record of the AI TAIWAN 2026 VIP Lounge, from first module to finished space.
23-page edition
What you rent is more than a space. It is a documented result you can write into an ESG report. This whitepaper is the full proof of the previous installation. How were the carbon figures calculated? What data stands behind them? How do you cite them in your own report? It is all inside.
Free download, no sign-up. English edition, 23 pages, approx. 10 MB. Feel free to cite it, with attribution.
Let's discuss bringing CircoGreen Salon to your annual gala, product launch, or brand event, complete with carbon data you can write into your ESG report.