ARI BAKHTIARI
grounded in emerging technologies, art direction and material studies, my work focuses on designing and developing worlds that translate complex ideas into felt, visual systems.
Amansol is a reclusive, monastic luxury wellness resort carved into the floor of the Sonoran Desert. Conceived as a sanctuary that disappears into the earth rather than rising above it, the resort inverts the traditional resort typology — guests descend into silence. Architecture is subterranean and brutalist: raw poured concrete, rammed earth, and Arizona sandstone, weathered to feel as ancient as the landscape itself.
a long way from home, a long way to go