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site area; lot area; total area of land on which a building stands
The total area of a piece of land (a building lot, factory site, school grounds, etc.), normally measured in square metres or 坪 (a traditional unit of about 3.3 m²). A standard item in real-estate listings, building plans, and construction documents, often shown alongside the building footprint and total floor area.
Compound of 敷地 ('building site; plot of land') and 面積 ('area'). One of the standard pieces of information given in any Japanese real estate or construction document.
Usage
- Standard real-estate listings show three areas: 敷地面積 (site area), 建築面積 (building footprint), and 延床面積 (total floor area, summed across all floors).
- Often expressed in 平米 (m²) or 坪.
- 敷地 can refer to a residential lot, a school campus, a factory site, or a temple grounds; 敷地面積 is the area of any of these.
- The Japanese building code restricts the 建蔽率 ('building-to-land ratio') and 容積率 ('floor-area ratio') based on the 敷地面積.
Common collocations
- 敷地面積は約〜平米: the site area is approximately ... square metres
- 広い敷地面積: a large site area
- 敷地面積を確保する: to secure (a sufficient) site area
- 敷地面積当たり: per unit of site area
- 敷地面積換算: in terms of site area
Similar words
- 建築面積: building (footprint) area — area covered by the building when seen from above.
- 延床面積: total floor area — sum of floor areas across all storeys.
- 土地面積: land area — close synonym, sometimes used in surveying contexts.
- 敷地: building site; plot of land — the lot itself, without explicit reference to its area.
- 建蔽率: building-to-land ratio — the ratio of 建築面積 to 敷地面積, used in building regulation.