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.

34.0488° N, 118.2518° W
Monastic Pool Amansol
Foam Sculpture Foam Sculpture
Chiaroscuro Chiaroscuro
Neo-Southwest Neo-Southwest
Amansol
Location: Sonoran Desert, Arizona Positioning: Aman ultra-reclusive tier Scale: 800 acres, 20 suites

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.

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Foam Sculpture — Case Study
Neo-Southwest

a long way from home, a long way to go