Espai Verd: Valencia's Radical Green Cathedral Residential Experiment
Espai Verd, a residential building in Valencia's Benimaclet neighborhood, is a radical late twentieth-century European architectural experiment. Designed by Spanish architect Antonio Cortés Ferrando with the CSPT group, the structure prioritizes experience over rational comprehension through a choreographic interplay of concrete masses and vegetation. Conceived not as a market response but from a collective desire to live in the city without sacrificing nature, Espai Verd embodies a habitable utopia. The building's constructive logic escapes easy understanding, unfolding through tensions and deviations that immerse visitors in a vertiginous encounter with planes, angles, and rotations.
Key facts
- Espai Verd is located in Valencia's Benimaclet neighborhood.
- The building was designed by Spanish architect Antonio Cortés Ferrando in collaboration with the CSPT group.
- It is considered one of the most radical residential experiments in late twentieth-century European architecture.
- The structure was born from a collective unease about living in the city without giving up nature.
- The building's design emphasizes experience over rational comprehension.
- The architecture features a choreographic play of concrete masses and vegetation.
- The building was not a response to the housing market.
- The article was written by Camilla Ghisleni and translated by Diogo Simões, published on May 06, 2026.
Entities
Artists
- Antonio Cortés Ferrando
Institutions
- CSPT group
- ArchDaily
Locations
- Valencia
- Spain
- Benimaclet