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The Project
Hospitality visionary Liz Lambert announced that her team has joined forces with ICON, the leader of advanced construction technologies pioneering large-scale 3D printing, and BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, world renowned architecture firm - to reimagine and rebuild El Cosmico.
Currently a unique 21-acre campground hotel in Marfa, TX. The relocation and expansion of El Cosmico to more than 60 acres will showcase entirely new architectural approaches made possible by large-scale 3D-printing including domes, arches, vaults and parabolic forms. The innovative development will feature El Cosmico guest accommodations in addition to new hospitality programming including a pool, bathhouse, and shared communal facilities.
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The Visionaries
“I have had a vision for the evolution of El Cosmico for many years that includes several spaces that add to the experience for guests, locals, and homeowners. In collaborating with the revolutionary thinkers at BIG and ICON, not only do I get to fulfill this dream, but we get to do it using this 3D printing technology that marries the oldest principles of raw earth-based building with a futuristic technology that works more quickly, sustainably and efficiently than modern construction. What’s more, the innovation and beauty of the types of structures we can build extends far beyond the box.
I’m excited that we get to explore this incredible work right here in our own little cosmic landscape under the stars in far West Texas.”
– Liz Lambert
Liz Lambert
A partner at Lambert McGuire Design, partner at MML Hospitality, and founder of Bunkhouse Group, Liz Lambert is a celebrated hotelier and designer who has created some of the country’s most interesting lifestyle hotels. Her creations include Hotel San José, Hotel Saint Cecilia, Austin Motel, El Cosmico in Marfa, Hotel San Cristóbal in Todos Santos BCS and Hotel Saint Vincent in New Orleans; as well as numerous food & beverage concepts. Lambert’s retail endeavors can be found at Far West Collection, her design studio focusing on collaborations for travel, rest, and home.
Bjarke Ingels Group
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) is a Copenhagen, New York, Los Angeles, London, Barcelona, and Shenzhen-based group of architects, designers, urbanists, landscape professionals, interior and product designers, researchers and inventors. Led by Bjarke Ingels, the studio is currently involved in projects throughout Europe, the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East.
BIG’s architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes. BIG believes that by hitting the fertile overlap between pragmatic and utopian, architects can find the freedom to change the surface of our planet, to better fit contemporary life forms.
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
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PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
ICON
ICON is a construction technology company developing robotic and AI systems to lower the cost and increase the speed and quality of construction to tackle the global housing crisis and prepare to build on other worlds. As a pioneer of large-scale 3D printing, ICON continually sets new standards for delivering resilient, dignified housing and recently unveiled a radical new robotic printer that enables multi-story construction, a new low-carbon building material, a digital catalog for residential architecture, and an AI architect for home design and construction. Social housing, diaster relief housing and market-rate residential housing projects are also underway in addition to developing construction systems to create infrastructure and habitats on the Moon and eventually Mars with NASA. Using proprietary 3D printing robotics, software and advanced materials, ICON is shifting the paradigm of homebuilding on Earth and beyond.
Lambert McGuire Design
Founded in 2019 by Liz Lambert and Larry McGuire, Lambert McGuire
Design (LMD) is an interior architecture and design studio located in Austin, TX. As celebrated and seasoned hoteliers and restaurateurs, Liz and Larry lead the design practice with a creative vision that is complemented by vast operational experience in the hospitality space. With dexterity between adaptive reuse and new build, the studio’s restaurant, hotel, retail, and residential projects span local and national locations.
Larry and Liz are also partners in MML Hospitality, along with Tom Moorman. Together, they develop and manage restaurants, hotels, and retail projects with award-winning and exacting attention to detail.
TEAM ACCOLADES
CONDÉ NAST TRAVELER HOT LIST
TRAVEL + LEISURE WORLD’S BEST AWARD
ABC NATIONAL EAGLE AWARD
GOLDEN LION, VENICE BIENNALE
AIA HONOR AWARD
WSJ ARCHITECTURAL INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR
EUROPEAN PRIZE FOR ARCHITECTURE
NASA LUNAR HABITATION CONTRACT RECIPIENT
RED DOT BEST OF THE BEST
HOTEL EXPERIENCE
HOTEL SAINT VINCENT
HOTEL SAINT CECILIA
HOTEL SAN JOSÉ
AUSTIN MOTEL
HOTEL SAN CRISTÓBAL
FOOD & BEVERAGE MML HOSPITALITY
Campbell Landscape Architecture
CLA is a forward-thinking and client-focused design studio that helps connect people with their natural environments. Their work is site-specific, environmentally conscious, and focused on enduring built environments that are truthful, highly crafted, and legible. They integrate landscape with art, architecture, engineering, and ecology. Through iterative exploration and strong regional knowledge, their work strives to produce innovative, authentic landscapes.
El Cosmico Today
The original El Cosmico is located on 21 acres on the edge of Marfa, Texas. Celebrated hotelier Liz Lambert, the creative force behind Austin’s Hotel San José and Hotel Saint Cecilia, has collaborated with a team of visionary artists and builders to create and artistic campground of vintage trailers, yurts, tents and other nomadic accommodations. More than simply a retreat from the modern world, Lambert’s vision has been to create a living laboratory for artistic, cultural and community experimentation. To that end, the property regularly hosts concerts, art classes, and skills-building workshops.
El Cosmico Reimagined
Located on 61 acres, the future El Cosmico will include 97 accommodations, new hospitality programming including a pool, bathhouse with hammam, restaurant, event spaces, and private residences, known as Sunday Homes.
MCDONALD OBSERVATORY
EL COSMICO
DAVIS MOUNTAIN RANGE
MARFA MUNICIPAL AIRPORT
MARFA MUNICIPAL GOLF COURSE
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Sunday Homes
Situated on the new El Cosmico site, Sunday Homes offer the chance to live at the intersection of nature and the arts and culture that define El Cosmico.
Breaking free from the limitations of traditional construction, the curved walls are made possible by the capabilities of ICON’s 3D-printing technology while adding strength and beauty to the overall structure. Sunday Homes are contained within their own circular modules. The kit of parts builds a unique, cloud-like floor plan from the sum of the combined circles.
Kitchen Finishes
Finish selections are subject to change
WALLS
Bedroom Finishes
Finish selections are subject to change
FURNISHINGS GREEN LEATHER MILLWORK & DOORS WOOD WALLS
“Our collaboration with El Cosmico and ICON has allowed us to pursue the formal and material possibilities of cuttingedge, 3D-printed construction untethered by the traditional limitations of a conventional site or client.”
BJARKE INGELS, FOUNDING PARTNER, BJARKE INGELS GROUP
Exclusive Interiors Package
Fully-furnished, curated interiors designed by Liz Lambert included in every Sunday Home purchase.
Hotel & Amenities
RESTAURANT
BATHHOUSE + HAMMAM
POOL
RETAIL SHOP
EVENT SPACES
In its new incarnation, the property will reflect designer Liz Lambert’s long-held vision for the full expression of El Cosmico. Here, the guiding principles of El Cosmico – interconnection, exploration, and opportunities for collective joy –bloom into an ecosystem of amenities that elevate those pursuits.
At the heart of the property, physically and spiritually, will be a central pool and a bathhouse with hammam, sauna, hot tubs, cold plunge and four treatment yurts.
Expanded workshop space is being developed to grow the get-your-hands-dirty offerings that El Cosmico is known for, as a space for artists and residents to explore their creativity, and to offer a flexible space for events. An elevated communal kitchen and firepit are elements of life at El Cosmico that will be re-envisioned for the new property.
A new 4,658 SF structure will be home to a restaurant and bar as the entry point for visitors to El Cosmico overlooking the majestic Davis mountains and serve as a place for residents and locals to gather around the table. The culinary vision will be led by a multiple James Beard Award-nominated chef and native Texan.
ELLE DECOR
“El Cosmico in Marfa, Texas, has one of the best gift shops of a property this writer has ever visited. It is very West Coast cool but with a wide appeal.”
“El Cosmico is far more than a place to stay – it’s
a vibrant community space that fosters creativity and intellectual exchange along with its quirky, artistic accommodations that include vintage trailers and casitas.”
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GQ: MARFA’S TRANS-PECOS MUSIC FESTIVAL IS THE EPICENTER OF CHILL STYLE
“Every year, a few thousand artists, musicians, and long-haired Texas country boys, bound by the love of good music and great times, descend onto the far-out West Texas town of Marfa. Held for three days and three nights at the psychedelic campground El Cosmico, the Trans-Pecos Festival is famous for its vintage travel trailers and safari tents. Food trucks and a ferris wheel tuck in alongside these photogenic dwellings—it’s a very specific vibe.”
Trans-Pecos Festival of Music & Love
The new El Cosmico will offer a magical setting for weddings, retreats, concerts, seasonal festivals, and other community and private gatherings. The facilities are capable of accommodating groups large and small for everything from intimate affairs to seated dinners for a few hundred guests, with in-house catering services from our award-winning chef. The event structure at the main house will be weatherized, heated and insulated, making it a year-round facility.
El Cosmico will continue to hold its annual Trans-Pecos Festival of Music + Love. The festival hosts a weekend of live music along with workshops and activities, a vendor marketplace and much more. Past artists include St. Vincent, Cat Power, Fiona Apple, Andrew Bird, Iron & Wine, Sleater Kinney, Wilco and many others.
The Trans-Pecos Festival of Music + Love has been the El Cosmico family reunion for 17 years and will continue its annual tradition in its new home.
Far West Texas
Marfa
Marfa, Texas sits at a unique crossroads of rural Southwest culture and international art mecca. The town is equally influenced by its cattle ranching legacy, its proximity to Mexico and the vibrant migration of artists from big cities who have been drawn to Marfa since the early 1970’s for its serenity and mystic quality of light. Here you will see a real cowboy and a major work of art in the same afternoon. What is now desert was once ocean, dinosaur homeland and Apache territory. There is talk of an inexplicable, elusive phenomenon of lights. Marfa sits amidst some of the Southwest’s best natural and built wonders, including Big Bend State and National Parks, McDonald Observatory, Chinati Hot Springs, the Davis Mountains and Balmorhea State Park.
Local Attractions
CHINATI FOUNDATION
The Chinati Foundation is an art museum in Marfa, Texas, based upon the ideas of its founder, Donald Judd. The emphasis is on works in which art and the surrounding land are inextricably linked.
MARFA INVITATIONAL
Marfa Invitational is an independent nonprofit arts and cultural foundation that hosts an annual art fair. Since 2019, the fair has brought artists and galleries from across the world to Marfa.
BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK
Big Bend National Park includes the entire Chisos mountain range and a large swath of the Chihuahuan Desert, spanning over one million acres of public land along with Big Bend Ranch State Park.
GOLF COURSE
Nearby Marfa Golf Course is the highest-altitude golf course in Texas.
VIZCAINO PARK
The community baseball field location near the new El Cosmico site has been home to an annual sandlot baseball game between Austin and Marfa. Working with the city, El Cosmico envisions meaningful improvements to the park.
LARGEST DARK SKY PRESERVE IN THE WORLD
The mission of the Greater Big Bend International Dark Sky Reserve is to protect the night sky from the spread of light pollution through the use of night-sky friendly lighting practices. Covering over 15,000 square miles, the Greater Big Bend International Dark Sky Reserve is the largest IDA-certified reserve in the world and the first to cross an international boundary.
