Departamento de pasillo

11:58 Aug 4, 2015
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Spanish term or phrase: Departamento de pasillo
This term is found in a housing survey. Other options include "Casa," "Dto. monoblock," and "dto. en edificio de altos de dos pisos o mas." Not much other context.
Tina Delia
United Kingdom
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4Department hall
jude dabo
3 +1Hallway apartment
Phoenix III
3apartment with a hall
Frank Gerace
2ground floor apartments
patinba
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Andy Watkinson

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Department hall


Explanation:
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jude dabo
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apartment with a hall


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Frank Gerace
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Hallway apartment


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Note added at 7 hrs (2015-08-04 19:10:06 GMT)
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My answer refers to an apartment that is facing a hall or hallway as opposed to one whose entrance faces the street, the beach or is located in a mezzanine, a rooftop, etc. This fall's into the category if type of home.

Phoenix III
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agree  godson777
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ground floor apartments


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or flats to you Tina.

I have not seen this term in Buenos Aires before, and Google hits almost all refer to the city of Rosario, Argentina's second largest, so it could be a very local usage.

Then you have to look at what you already have on your list and find what is missing. You already have flats in self-standing tower blocks and tall buildings, so I strongly suspect they are referring to ground-floor apartments along a passageway (rather than a corridor) Some of the Google photos seem to bear this out.

patinba
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Reference comments


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Reference information:
Estos departamentos, que en función de su organización
espacial, técnicas constructivas y sociabilidad doméstica, pueden ser
caracterizados como “pre-modernos”, habían aparecido en Buenos Aires en el
siglo XIX.
Los **departamentos de pasillo** pueden ser caracterizados como una
tipología de vivienda colectiva destinada a alquiler, y en la cual cada núcleo
familiar podía disponer de dos o tres cuartos, además de baño y cocina para su
exclusivo uso, a diferencia de lo que sucedía en los populares “conventillos”.

Andy Watkinson
Spain
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Asker: This seems to me to be a "family apartment." Any thoughts?


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agree  Neil Ashby
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