DESIGN FEVER39
RESORT & HOSPITALITY MASTER PLANNING
Master Planning Exceptional Destinations - DESIGN FEVER39 creates world-class hospitality, tourism, and mixed-use destinations through innovative planning, sustainable design, and decades of international expertise.
about DESIGN FEVER39
Who We Are - DESIGN FEVER39 is an internationally recognized master planning and design consultancy specializing in world-class hospitality, tourism, and mixed-use destination developments. Our expertise spans intimate boutique resorts, luxury island retreats, golf resorts, integrated tourism destinations, ski resorts, waterfront communities, and large-scale resort cities where hospitality, residential, commercial, and lifestyle components are seamlessly combined into a unified vision. Backed by decades of international experience across Asia and beyond, we deliver innovative, environmentally responsive, and commercially viable master plans that transform exceptional sites into distinctive destinations while creating lasting value for investors, communities, and future generations.
OUR SERVICES
RESORT & HOSPITALITY MASTER PLANNING
Design Service
Development Vision + Strategy
Site Analysis + Design Feasibility Study
Land Use Planning
Concept Master Plan
Detailed Master Plan
Project Type
Beach Resort
Boutique Resort
Destination Resort
Spa Resort
Island Resort
Large Scale Integrated Resort
Large Scale Mixed Use Resort
Regional Tourism + Leisure Destination
Resort Community + Township
Golf Course + Golf Community
RESORT LANDSCAPE DESIGN & PLANNING
Design Service
Design Vision + Strategy
Site Review + Analysis
Concept Design
Schematic Design
Design Development
Project Type
Resort & Hotels
Open Space + Public Realm
Waterfront/ Promendade
Residential Villas + Community
RESORT ARCHITECTURE & INTERIOR DESIGN
Design Service
Project Vision + Positioning
Concept Design
Schematic Design
Design Development
Project Type
Resort & Hotels
Resort Pool Villas
Beach Club
Resort Restaurants + Bars
Spa + Welness Design
Selected Projects
KEY STAFF
Senior Leadership
SAM KIM
CEO/Founder
Resort Master Planning/Urban Design/Landscape Design
Sam Kim is the Founder and Principal of DESIGN FEVER39, an international resort planning and design consultancy specializing in hospitality, tourism, and destination master planning across Asia. With over 25 years of international experience, he has led the planning and design of luxury resorts, mixed-use tourism destinations, golf communities, waterfront developments, and large-scale hospitality projects. His expertise spans destination visioning, feasibility studies, resort master planning, and integrated design strategies that create commercially successful, environmentally responsible, and memorable destinations. Prior to establishing DESIGN FEVER39, Sam held senior leadership positions with globally recognized firms including AECOM (formerly EDAW), WATG, and Belt Collins Hawaii. As Director of Tourism & Hospitality and Director of Master Planning at AECOM Singapore, he led multidisciplinary teams on major destination resort and tourism developments throughout Asia. Sam holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from Cornell University in New York, with concentrations in Hospitality Planning and Urban Planning, and a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Utah State University, USA.
WALTER JAMIESON, FCIP, BA, MES, MSC, PHD
Executive Senior Advisor
Creative Tourism
For more than 35 years Walter Jamieson has worked to bridge the academic and consultancy worlds through creativity, innovation and out-of-the-box thinking. Independently and/or through collaborative exercises Walter Jamieson has worked with a significant number of public as well as private sector clients at an international, national, as well as the local level including the Asian Development Bank, United Nations World Tourism Organization AECOM, UNWTO, ESCAP, UNESCO and the ASEAN countries. He has been a member of faculty and management at universities in Canada, the United States, Thailand and Japan. He is currently Director of the Service Innovation program at Thammasat University and past Dean of the University of Hawaii School of Travel Industry Management. Walter is also the recipient of the Queen's Jubilee Medal in Canada and was elected to the College of Fellows, Canadian Institute of Planners.
IAN BUYCO
Design Director
Landscape Architecture
Mr. Buyco has over 23 years of extensive landscape design experience having practiced in the Philippines, UAE and Singapore with highly established firms such as EDAW|AECOM, ACL Asia and Belt Collins. Ian believes in sustainable and meaningful design that works with the local context and the grain of the land as opposed to imposing upon the site. This approach creates a responsive and integrated development that allows for creativity and ensures project viability. Having been trained and influenced by some of the most prominent landscape design firms, his aim is to infuse his own brand of artistry with the same level of dedication and excellence for the next generation of developments around the world.
SUVIT VARANYAPORN
Design Director
Architecture & Interior Design
Mr. Varanyaporn brings over 35 years of extensive architecture and interior design experience from major design firms such as Banyan Tree Hotels and Space Architects Thailand. Suvit has designed and managed several major Banyan Tree and Angsana Resort projects in Vietnam, China, UAE and India as project architect and senior project manager. He has also designed several other major hotels & resorts, residential villas, condominium and commercial retail projects with other major architectural firms in Thailand. As an architectural design leader, he leads architectural design projects across South East Asia. Suvit has expertise in luxury resort design.
JARON KETNON
Design Director
Spa Design/Interior Design
Mr. Ketnon is a native Thai and has over 28 years of interior design experience from international design firms such as HBA and also international luxury hotel brands such as Shangri-La and Banyan Tree Resorts and Hotels in Bangkok, Thailand. Mr. Ketnon brings unique spa design experience while working at Banyan Tree Resorts where he served as senior interior manager. He designed and managed a number of Banyan Tree Resorts Spa projects in South East Asian countries including India.
KOK KHEONG TEY
Senior Design and Technical Advisor
Hotel Architecture and Interior Design
Mr. Tey is a licensed architect in State of New York in USA and a veteran hospitality architect with over 35 years of experience in US and Malaysia. Mr. Tey has been involved in a number of hotel and resort projects as technical design director from concept design to pre-opening stage with major operator and developers. As a technical advisor, Mr. Tey will review company’s hospitality architecture and interior design projects from concept stages and onward. Registered Architect, State of New York, USA
[License Number 022413]
TERRY MEGALOS
Artist + Creative Writer
Mr. Megalos is an artist, musician and writer of Greek descent. He has been involved in the graphic design industry as a creative designer and writer in the past decade leading various strategic writing and content development projects as consultant. He has joined Design Fever39 as an artist and creative writer to help in the firm's creative approaches concerning the thematic destination development in design and planning. Terry studied Physics and Music in the University of Manchester, UK.
CONTACT US
SINGAPORE
DESIGN FEVER 39
#06-07D 111 Somerset Road
Singapore 238164
+65 9855 2086
THAILAND
6 The Racquet Club
Building 2, 5th Floor, Studio 253
Soi Sukhumvit 49/9, Sukhumvit Road
Klongto-Nua, Wattana
Bangkok 10110, Thailand
+66 2 018 7873
PHILIPPINES
Araneta Center, Cubao 5th fl,
Gateway Tower,
Quezon City Philippines
+632 921 8606
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