- Beyond Sustainability - The Case for Regenerative Design
- Understanding Place - Climate, Site, and Solar Geometry
- The Six Integrated Systems - An Overview
- Building with the Earth—Natural Materials
- Passive Solar Design - Heating and Cooling Without Machines
- Off-Grid Energy Systems - Power from the Sun
- Water - Catching, Storing, and Cycling
- Liquid Waste Treatment - Botanical Systems
- Food Systems—Buildings That Feed
- Community Design - Scaling Up
- The Integrated Design Process
- Appendix A: Glossary of Key Terms
- Appendix B: The Pangea Textbook Series
- Appendix C: Key Design Principles at a Glance
- The Regenerative Community Vision
- Site Assessment and Land Reading
- Land Use Law and Legal Frameworks
- Master Planning for Regenerative Communities
- Infrastructure Systems Integration
- Housing Typologies and Density Design
- Community Governance Structures
- Economic Models for Community Development
- Phased Development Strategy
- Community Resilience and Long-Term Stewardship
- Appendix A: Legal Entity Comparison Chart
- Appendix B: Community Design Checklist
- Appendix C: Glossary of Community Development Terms
A regenerative building is not a collection of independent systems that happen to share a roof. It is an integrated organism in which each system feeds and supports the others, creating relationships of mutual reinforcement that produce performance greater than the sum of the parts. Understanding these relationships, the feedback loops, the shared inputs and outputs, the synergies between systems, is the core intellectual task of regenerative design.
This chapter introduces each of the six systems in the Pangea model and, more importantly, maps the connections between them. Later books in this series cover each system in the technical depth needed for design and construction. Here, the goal is integration: to see the whole before studying the parts.