This technology is being used in the El Cosmico project on the outskirts of Marfa, Texas. Here, 43 hotel rooms and 18 residential buildings will be built on an area of 24 hectares — all of which will be printed on a 3D printer.
It is the world's first 3D-printed hotel, says El Comico owner Liz croatia phone number resource Lambert. The project partners are Austin-based 3D printing company ICON and architects Bjarke Ingels Group.
Lambert believes that technology opens up unprecedented opportunities for creativity.
“Most hotels are in four walls, and you’re often repeating the same room over and over again,” says Lambert. “I’ve never had the opportunity to create in such flexible conditions and with such little constraints… just curves, domes and parabolas. It’s a crazy way to build.”
Lambert says that there are architectural features in the layout of hotel rooms that would be too expensive to recreate using traditional methods.
The first structures under construction are single-story (wall height 3.7 m) structures - a one-room hotel room and a three-bedroom house. The curved beige walls emerge from the tubes of ICON's Vulcan 3D printer. It is 14.2 m wide, stands on 4.7 m supports and weighs 4.75 tons.
A printing specialist watches as a robotic arm and Vulcan nozzle glide across a platform at a construction
