The VLAS models library

Models & Resources

VLAS publishes models — living frameworks for developing places so that every act of building increases the health of the whole. One model is the root of all the others. Each carries its own resource library.

The core model

The framework every other model grows from

Develop and design so that every act of building increases the health of the whole living place.

The core modelCore model

Regenerative Development & Design

The foundational VLAS model. It reframes development from minimizing harm to actively regenerating the capacity of a place — its water, soils, community, and culture — as one living system. Every other model in this library is an application of it to a specific domain.

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Published models

Applications to specific domains

Each of these takes the core model and applies it to a real development challenge — starting with the first public reference model, the Regen Data Center.

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Regen Data Center

The first public VLAS reference model — an illustrative worked example applying Regenerative Development & Design to data-center development, with a 106-intervention catalog, a live Place Planner, and the Five Capitals balance engine.

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Regenerative Ecotourism

The second public VLAS reference model. It composes consent, visitor capacity, customary access, local value, conservation return, and public evidence into one visitor covenant — with the six-movement telling rendered entirely from shared model components.

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On the workbench

Being drawn out next

Named honestly — in development, not yet published. No dead links; these arrive as full models with their own resource libraries.

In developmentIn development

Five Capitals Accounting

The accounting model beneath every VLAS surface, being drawn out as a standalone reference and toolkit.

On the workbench
In developmentIn development

Story of Place

The front-end inversion at the heart of regenerative practice, being prepared as a public model.

On the workbench
Start with the reference model

See the framework applied end to end

The Regen Data Center is the first public VLAS reference model — an illustrative worked example with a 106-intervention catalog, a live Place Planner, and the Five Capitals balance engine.

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