El Cosmico

More photo love

Beautiful photos by Matt Williams

LOTS of good photos

See the link below for some photos.
Thanks to all who sent in pics.

photo: Steve Ross

Web Gallery Link

Good Photo Time

Photos from Theresa Noyes

El Cosmico Weekend 2007 :: Clear Skies & Big Fun

Thanks to all who joined us for this year's party. Please send in your photos to share.
Stay tuned for more updates.

Saludos - Familia Cosmico

Get out on the Road to El Cosmico

Get in your car and GO!
Join us this weekend for legendary nights under blankets of stars.
photo Lexi Meece

Entertainment Line Up :: El Cosmico Stage

All Lined up

Plan accordingly - see you there!

Friday:
7 p.m. Zane McWilliams
8 p.m. Savage Trip
9 p.m. Gulf of Mexico
10 p.m. The Pleasures
11 p.m. The Steps

Saturday:
7 p.m. Rebecca Gates
8 p.m. Amy Cook
9 p.m. Adam Bork
10 p.m. Tift Merritt
11 p.m. Barbara Lynn
12 p.m. Lil Cap’n Travis

El Cosmico Mayhem - This Weekend

See El Cosmico website for full details.

Get prepared for a helluva match up!

The Texas Playboys - traveling in from Austin and beyond - are going toe to toe with the Los Yonke Gallos de Marfa! Bring your loudest friends and come watch these teams smoke up the bases.
Time: This Saturday - September 21
When: 4p
Where: Vizciano Field on Golf Course Road | MARFA

photos by Dave Mead

El Cosmico | Save The Date | 21-23 September

....:A SIGNAL FROM THE TRANSPECOS:....
Break out telescope, marble collection, motorcycle helmet and all desert party tools.
Prepare for 2nd Annual El Cosmico Weekend.
El Cosmico gets better every year - don't miss the fun.
Mark all calendars and plan to dance into the small hours.
....:END OF TRANSMISSION:....

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21ST - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23RD

Details to follow.
Stay tuned to this channel and elcosmico.com for further information. Email us to be added to the invitation list.

Cloud Shower

A Trailer in the Making

A few snaps from a Spartans' journey in beautification & restoration
Photos by Dave Mead

Ghost Trailer

Built By Jack Sanders, Ann Tucker, Lee Holt, Clair Holt, Ginger Griffice, Isadora McKeon & Liz Lambert

see our site plan...

Greetings.  We have been very busy here at the Bunkhouse, studying our plans for El Cosmico and trying to zero in on our master plan for the infrastructure for the community, the trailers and the timeline of the project.  As you can imagine, it is difficult to pin down construction numbers in Marfa, and it is challenging to price out not-yet-found vintage trailers, but we’re working hard to resolve these unknowns and to answer all of your questions.

We’ve assembled an exciting team to design and construct the grounds and common areas of the site:  landscape architect Christy Ten Eyck of Austin and Phoenix, Bob Harris of Lake/Flato in San Antonio and Jack Sanders of JWKLR Design Build Adventure in Austin.

We have completed conceptual drawings and are in the process of analyzing costs. Our initial cost analysis indicates that trailer prices will range from $75,000 to $110,000.  We have begun to locate some great specimens – five to six Spartans will be delivered to Austin in the next few weeks for us to begin work.  We hope to start site work in Marfa in May.  I can’t yet tell you what our construction timeline looks like – there are still details to work out that will dictate when trailers will be able to occupy the property.  When the trailers arrive at El Cosmico, they will be permanently attached to water, electricity and sewage.

Below is a link to download Lake/Flato’s site plan for the El Cosmico grounds.  This is a preliminary sketch, and we are not committed to these exact details, but I do want to share it with you to show you the direction the development is headed.  One of the main organizing principles of the site is the large pool at the center – everything will radiate off of that ninety-foot (diameter) orb. The trailer imprints look a little crazy because we’ve imagined attached porches and outdoor showers.

We look forward to posting more information as we gather it – we’ll update the blog regularly with pictures, plans and more details. 

Kind Regards,
Liz Lambert

Download el_cosmico_site_plan.pdf
Download el_cosmico_trailer_reservation_agreement.DOC

more photos from days gone by

Photos we miss...

Blogging is hard sometimes. Sometimes things just disappear. Like all of those pictures from all of those posts. We missed them, so here they are again.

 

Under Construction

As we proceed  with Phase 1 of El Cosmico's development we hope you'll keep track of our progress. Currently, we are working on power and water installation. During this phase we won't be open for camping. Check back with us in the coming months.

And thanks again to all the happy campers who celebrated with us during our Groundbreaking Event in September. More pictures are coming soon...if you have photo's you'd like to share please send to info@elcosmico.com.

photo by Steve Ross

El Cosmico Fever

A thank you as big as the Marfa skies goes out to everyone who participated in making the Groundbreaking Event a huge success. We welcome feedback, stories and photos for the blog - send along to info@elcosmico.com.

For project updates and more information about trailers for purchase please contact us at info@elcosmico.com .

Cross Town Spotting: Part II

Follow us to Marfa - by way of the Königsplatz in Munich

North by Northeast

Spotted near the Löwenbräukeller in Munich

Marfa Records

Get to know two Marfa Records artists- Amy Cook and Adam Bork.

Lamberts Austin/ Lamberts Marfa

 

Chefs Lou Lambert + Larry McGuire of Lamberts Downtown Barbecue will be preparing Saturday's barbecue dinner on-site at  El Cosmico, by fire, by smoker, by dutch oven.

Please remember to RSVP by September 18th to info@elcosmico.com for the Saturday Dinner. Dinner is ten dollars per person, served between 6pm-9pm.

What We Said to the Press

Marfa, TX – August 28th, 2006
El Cosmico is the latest lodging concept from Liz Lambert and her management company, Bunkhouse.  Lambert is the creative force behind the popular Hotel San Jose in Austin, as well as the city’s landmark coffee house, Jo’s Hot Coffee. Lambert’s first project in Marfa, the Thunderbird Hotel, met with critical acclaim, not only for its clean, crisp aesthetic, but also for its respect for the austere West Texas landscape. Lambert has moved on, ending her business relationship with the Thunderbird Hotel in the fall of 2005. Lambert’s work has been featured in numerous magazines, newsweeklies, design books and travel shows.

Lambert’s new project, El Cosmico, is slated to break ground in Marfa, Texas, in the winter of 2006.  “El Cosmico will be a Trans-Pecos kibbutz for the 21st century – part yurt and hammock hotel, part residential living, part art-house, greenhouse, amphitheatre and farmer’s market – a community space that fosters artistic and intellectual exchange.”   Lambert is working with the architecture firm Lake/Flato and with Jamey Garza of Benton/Garza Design.

As part of the overall aim to build community in a creative and sustainable space, twenty to thirty renovated vintage trailers will be sold to make up a small village on the site. Owners will have the option to put their various Vagabond and Spartan trailers into a rental pool when they’re not in residence. Over time, Lambert will also add yurts, hammocks and rammed earth buildings to the property to create El Cosmico’s unconventional hotel. A large pool and pavilion will lie at the bedouin heart of the village– residents and visitors can cool off in the summer months with a swim, or warm up in the winter in wood-fired hot tubs.

El Cosmico intends to serve the community of Marfa.  Lambert plans to build a series of art shacks along the road leading into the village – a silk screen workshop, a pottery studio, and a darkroom – places for both guests and locals to get their hands dirty. Lambert hopes that El Cosmico will become part of the everyday fabric of Marfa.

See it before it’s there:  El Cosmico is located on Highway 67, just south of Marfa.  Come help El Cosmico celebrate its groundbreaking this September 22 – 24, 2006.

Village Builders Unite- El Cosmico Introduces Jack Sanders

Jack Sanders

MARFA, TX

INFO ON MARFA

here's a great site for information on what the area has to offer.

1st Annual Marfa Music Festival

-AN EXPLOSION OF SOUNDS- September 22 + 23

Friday begins with music + projections by Adam Bork , followed by The Missing Tapes + Gulf of Mexico. Saturday's show begins at 5pm and ends when the firewood for the dutch tubs runs out- with music by Ethan + Melissa, The Steps, Amy Cook,Chili Cold Blood, Tift Merrit and Lil' Capn' Travis. Dust off your dancing boots.

All Directions Point West to El Cosmico

Continuing The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture  collaboration with El Cosmico, professor Steve Ross (with UT alum Jack Sanders of JWLKR Design Build Adventure) will wrangle a herd of nomadic students, faculty, and alumni and occupy El Cosmico site a week in advance to design/build (brainstorm/improvise) hammock sleeping clusters, outdoor showers, pool-tubs, shade structures and partitions, and possibly a concierge desk/kissing booth. Like kids building forts from a pile of off-the-shelf materials....

Volunteers welcome: Contact Steve Ross at slross@mail.utexas.edu

UT Architecture

Driving Directions to Marfa + El Cosmico

From Austin, Texas

At the U.S. 290 juncture, take the I-10 West U.S. Interstate to exit #248 (228 miles) . At Exit #248 go towards U.S. 67 South/FM. 1776 to Alpine, Texas.  Turn left on FM 1776 (becomes U.S. 67) to Alpine (55 miles). U.S. 67 becomes East Avenue E, continue west through Alpine (East Avenue E becomes West, Avenue E) At the edge of town Avenue E becomes U.S. 90, continue 25 miles to Marfa. At the intersection of U.S. 90 and 67 in Marfa, make a left on U.S. 67/ South Highland Street. Travel approx. 1/2 mile to El Cosmico (on right, corner of West Madrid Street).

Allison V. Smith's Photos of Marfa

check out allison smith's photos of marfa here

SEE IT BEFORE ITS THERE!

this is how el cosmico looks today.  the village is just a sparkle in our collective eye. so, get ready to throw your bed roll on the ground, and say goodbye to indoor plumbing for a couple of days. this party is all about blessing the land by dancing in the dirt and sleeping under the stars.

The Way of Lake Flato

LAND - LIGHT - CRAFT - COMMUNITY - SPACES BETWEEN - SUSTAINABILITY

for more information on the el cosmico architects, lake flato, please go to their website:
http://www.lakeflato.com/

Join Us

Groundbreaking Weekend - September 22nd through 24th.  Come spend a few days and nights in the desert communing with well-wishers, hell-raisers and future friends of El Cosmico.  There will be much music and merrymaking.  Barbecue and falafel will be washed down with barrels of beer.  We will pass the bottle around the campfire, and climb on in an outdoor hottub under the big night sky.  More info here soon.

Viva Victorio - Find out more...

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Interesting Blog

check out the comprehensive blog on architectural conjecture :: urban speculation :: lanscape futures

The Hippie Museum

get prepared. check it out.

dutchtubs

have a cocktail with this man in a dutchtub -- learn more

Rammed Earth

Here's an example of rammed earth

This is borrowed from the very informative blog, Inhabitat.

THE CHRISTENING OF EL COSMICO

September 22nd - 24th: Come help us launch El Cosmico on her maiden voyage. Barbecue, hammocks, dutch hot tubs, bonfires and bands! We will be setting up a temporary village on the land for the weekend -- BYOT (Bring Yer Own Tent). The countdown begins . . .

Highway 67 Revisited

Concrete Boxes

big sky country

Negative Edge

Marfa Hunting Sortie

Photo Album

Current photos

Marfa Beach Club

Adam Bork - Tumbleweeds

View this video by Adam Bork - Tumbleweeds