Designed by Scarlett Designs, Awali Wellness Resort is an exercise in restraint, stillness, and the architecture of retreat. Rather than imposing on the Nainital slopes, the 20-key resort settles into them, its contemporary forms stepping gently with the terrain until building and landscape read as one.

The work reflects a deep understanding of how a wellness stay should feel, where privacy and communal calm are held within the same envelope. Honest stone, warm timber, and expansive glazing form the foundation, framed by rhythmic vertical fins and low, clean-lined roofs. Private plunge pools, sunlit decks, and cabana-lined terraces draw the outdoors in, so every vantage point offers a moment of pause.

With this resort, Scarlett Designs moves away from architecture as spectacle, embracing instead a design language rooted in sensory calm, deep connection to place, and the conviction that a retreat should feel inevitable, as though it had always belonged to these hills.