World’s first 3D-printed hotel under construction in Texas: ‘Crazy way to build’

World’s first 3D-printed hotel under construction in Texas: 'Crazy way to build'Source: Reuters

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00:00I mean, most hotels are contained within four walls.

00:28And a lot of times you are building the same unit over and over and over again.

00:34I've never been able to build with such little constraint and such fluidity, and just the

00:47curves and the domes and the parabolas, it's a crazy way to build.

00:58On hotter days or hotter shifts, when the concrete dries out faster, it creates like

01:14a lighter color.

01:15And then on overnight shifts or days that are cloudier or colder, the concrete will

01:19cure a little darker.

01:21And so it creates this nice, natural, quasi-random, but not completely random, variation in the

01:28material that is just way better than a sterile, uniform paint or something like that.

01:33And so we're really proud of the way this is coming out.

01:34It's the first time on a project we've sort of let this happen or sort of done it, been

01:40random on purpose, if that makes sense.