Sawada Mansion which was built by only two people in Kochi, Japan is the one of most biggest self-build building in the world. The building had been built like agile process, lean startup, and living thing. It has been embracing changes, purpose, form, and community to keep up with the times since it was built. I think that it has a lot of agilities and we can learn a lot from it.
I talked about it in Open Jam in Agile2008.
3. Table of Contents
● What's Sawada Mansion
● What agility are there in Sawa-Man?
4. What's Sawada Mansion
(we called “Sawa-Man”)
● World's Biggest Self-builded Apartment
● It was built by only two people
● Big Building
– 60 rooms
– 70 meters
– 6 stories
● Illegal Building
● There're crane, rice field.
8. When did it built?
● 1971-1973
– First period
● 1973-1976
– Second period
● 1983-1985
– Third period
● 1985-now
– small rebuilding
1st period
2nd period 3rd period
9. Why did they build Sawa-Man?
● Mr Sawada set his mind on building an apartment with
100 rooms
– When he was in fifth-grade at junior school.
● He wanted to work at needless mathematics and
language
– He was not good at mathematics, language
11. What agilities are there in Sawada
Mansion ?
● Build process
● Team
● Involved Customer
● Embracing Change
12. Build process
● Iterative
● Incremental
● Concept to Cash
● Build to
earn money
1st
peri
od
2nd
peri
od
3rd
peri
od
13. Team
● Mr and Mrs Sawada were builder
– Not architect
– Not study reinforced concrete
● Cross functional team
● Continuous learning
● Everything was done by themselves
14. Involved Customer
● They always listen to the residents
● They reply to their demand quickly
● They are residents too.
15. Embracing change
● They had reconstructed and re-partitioing in
Sawa-Man
● They don't hesitate to destroy, change
16. Some changes
● A slope through the mansion
● A lift to carry materials
● A crane to carry materials
● Flowerbed on the rails
19. Conclusion
● Sawa-Man is very agile building
– The “Hardware” building can be agile
● Can “Soft”ware learn from Sawa-Man?
● Please visit and see Sawa-Man!!