linea de edificación

English translation: building line/building restriction line

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Spanish term or phrase:	linea de edificación
English translation:	building line/building restriction line
Entered by:	Taña Dalglish

21:34 Feb 3, 2018

Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Architecture

Spanish term or phrase: linea de edificación

Hi all,

I'm translating an academic essay about the changes (due to renovations and re-purposing) that occurred to a heritage architectural site in Córdoba, Argentina. I understand the term "linea de edificación" to mean something like the boundary/perimeter of the constructed set of buildings, but I'm not sure if there's a more concise, or insider term available.

Context:

La intervención supuso la demolición de gran parte del edificio y como consecuencía, la pérdida de sus valores tipológicos. Por otro parte, si bien la Capilla fue preservada y restaurada en su totalidad, el resto de la envolvente sobre Avda. Irigoyen, fue sensiblemente alterada en sus proporciones y aberturas, además de parcialmente reformulada. El resto de las envolventes sobre las calles Obispo Oro, Buenos Aires y San Lorenzo, que conformaban y daban compacidad al conjunto sobre la ### linea de edificación ###, desaparecieron dando lugar a múltiples e irregulares oquedades.

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Thanks in advance for the suggestions.

Scott Hendry Jackson KudoZ activity Questions: 7 (none open) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 15 Argentina
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building line/building restriction line

Explanation:
As per previous references provided.

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Thank you.

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Taña Dalglish
Jamaica
Local time: 16:52

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building line/building restriction line

Taña Dalglish

set-back line

bigedsenior

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Refs.

Taña Dalglish

Definition of building line in California

Muriel Vasconcellos

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peer agreement (net): +2

building line/building restriction line

Taña Dalglish
Jamaica
Local time: 16:52
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 104

Grading comment

Thanks, Taña!

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks for the suggestion and the references, Taña.

2 days 3 hrs confidence:

set-back line

Explanation:
It is the term builders, contractors, RE people, banks and everyone else you can think of, uses.

https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Setback

bigedsenior
Local time: 14:52
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 236

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Asker: Thanks a lot, Big Ed.

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41 mins peer agreement (net): +1

Reference: Refs.

Reference information:
https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/building-line
WHAT DOES BUILDING LINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?
definitionDefinition of building line in the English dictionary
The definition of building line in the dictionary is the boundary line along a street beyond which buildings must not project.

http://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?la...
English
Subject field(s)
Regulations (Urban Studies)
building line
CORRECT
setback line
CORRECT
front line
CORRECT
building restriction line
CORRECT
construction line
DEF
An imaginary line set at a fixed distance from a street or other right-of-way, beyond which no building facade may be constructed.

OBS
building line: term proposed by the World Road Association.

Spanish
Campo(s) temático(s)
Reglamentación (Urbanismo)
línea de edificación
CORRECT, FEM
límite de edificación
CORRECT, MASC
DEF
Línea situada a ambos lados de la carretera y que define los límites hasta donde puede llegar la edificación.

OBS
En el interior de la zona definida por ambas líneas toda modificación de las construcciones o aprovechamientos requiere licencia previa del órgano público gestor de la carretera.

OBS
línea de edificación; límite de edificación: Términos y definición propuestos por la Asociación Mundial de la Carretera.

Taña Dalglish
Jamaica
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 104

1 hr

Reference: Definition of building line in California

Reference information:
[RB] BUILDING LINE. The line established by law, beyond which a building shall not extend, except as specifically provided by law.

https://up.codes/viewer/california/ca-residential-code-2016/chapter/2/definitions

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 124

Note to reference poster

Asker: Thanks a lot, Muriel. Very helpful!!!

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