Sawada Mansion

送信者 umaibow

送信者 umaibow

Sawada apartments and condominiums are built by hand a couple of Sawada from residents living in the 1970s to begin the construction, architectural wonders that continue to repeat that more than 35 years of renovation. And a six-story apartment was a five-storey, for example, give them the slope around the apartment can go by car to the fifth floor (this slope is far run into a room 3rd floor), create your own elevator with no walls that.

The repeated appearance of enlarged enlarged, along with the island warship "Kowloon City in Japan" is also called, is known as one of the attractions of the exploration architecture.

In 1971, "Kano Sawada" At the age of 44, 550 square meters of land to buy in Kochi, Sawada proceed with the building of the apartment. To get started building certification takes construction remains, even for public office, "complained the strength not say if the commission could have prepared me for permission to" the extent that, a very magnanimous thing Datsu or that.
Rent bulldozers and large excavators 30 tons, bored through to 6m above ground, about 10 days to reach bedrock. Built on the pillars. The work proceeds in a way to build on-site from west to east. The implant after placing the concrete reinforcement, from her elementary school to mobilize "to drive the truck on foot reach," carrying mixed concrete, cement that was kneaded. "Plan of mine is in my head" and boasted, and even drawing a neat Tsukuranakatta. The roof mounted crane and also a sawmill and his wife own.
The original concept, "The number of units 100 units 10 floors" in a grand and is now said to form the final five-storey home units 60 units (six-storey part) has become. Sawada and his wife in the hope of beginning, had been lent to people who are active socially difficult situations, such as single mothers, tend to increase in recent years young people resident. Sawada Yoshimi after the death of agriculture, the expansion will stay status quo and will not be renewed and reinforced, and until this day.
The rent is uneven and far from about 50,000 yen 20,000 yen, space and sunshine conditions, equipment status (with or without air conditioning, or without renovation) has been set with consideration of such rents. Disparate number of rooms, which was decided in the order determined by the beginning construction of housing has become a headache and still courier service. The normal period as well as 101,102 apartments, sometimes in the form of a numbered, with a history-disdained undone residents. Leave the face of the current numbering of the time and room 202 is just. There is also the room number with the occasional mistake, the correct number (by tenants) and can be corrected, and sometimes confusion deepens room number instead.
Sawada Mansion history was also a history of conflict, such as administrative guidance, the suspension order and repeated construction. Today, residents formed a voluntary disaster prevention organization, to conduct evacuation drills and once a year, is generally good relations with government.