The world’s first 3D printed hotel is being prepared in Texas – 43 rooms and 18 houses will be built using an industrial-sized 3D printer

El Cosmico, a hotel and campground in Marfa, Texas — about an eight-hour drive from Dallas — is building two model units using a giant 3D printer. These examples form the basis of the site’s 40-acre expansion with 43 rooms and 18 apartments, all built using ICON’s Vulcan 3D printer. While many buildings have already been built using 3D printing techniques, these structures would be the first to be used in the hospitality industry, according to Reuters.

“Most hotels are within four walls and often you build the same unit over and over again,” El Cosmico owner Liz Lambert told Reuters. “I’ve never been able to build with so few restrictions and so fluidly, and just the curves, domes and parabolas are a crazy way to build.”