From 1952 to 2012, thousands of university students found their home at the Luis Vives Hall of Residence in Valencia (Spain), while they prepared for the future, filling the space they inhabited with enthusiasm, questions, new ideas and the rebelliousness necessary to break the molds of the past and continue building the path of progress.

That rationalist building, designed by the renowned Javier Goerlich, now serves as a student services center for the University of Valencia.

Rehabilitated by architect José María Tomás and renamed ‘Espai Vives’, it not only preserves its original façade and defining structural elements, but also the “invisible yet present” traces of those young people who preceded these ones now occupy its rooms for study, meetings, debate and cultural exchange.