About 15 years after opening, Marfa’s El Cosmico hotel is set to shift from its original campgrounds where guests stayed in yurts, trailers and teepees to a 3D-printed compound on more than 60 acres three miles away.
Hotelier and designer Liz Lambert, who thought up the original property, announced last year she planned to move El Cosmico from its current 21 acres on Marfa’s Highland Avenue to acreage along Antelope Hills Road.
She joined forces with construction technology firm Icon, in addition to architecture firms Bjarke Ingels Group and Nelsen Partners, to rethink the property.
Icon specializes in large-scale 3D printing and has a contract with NASA to build the first dwellings on the moon and on Mars.
Nelsen Partners is the architect of record for the project, and Bjarke Ingels Group is the design architect behind single-family homes and other structures.
Filings with the state show part of the scope of the second iteration of the West Texas hospitality property.
With a tentative construction start date listed for August, a state filing calls for about 100,000 square feet of new construction comprising single-family residences, hotel lodging and several amenity buildings.
In addition to guest units and two-, three-, and four-bedroom homes, the development will incorporate a pool, spa and space for art and skills-building workshops, set amid views of the Davis Mountains.
The work, which has a projected completion date slated for August 2026, has an estimated construction cost of $50 million, according to the state filing.
