"skin index" by Patricia Vraber 
  

Architectural intervention includes skin, as we know it, as a connection between our inner and outer worlds and allows us to experience people, places, creatures, or things through it. One can see it as a constant element representing themes that cannot be expressed within a structure of a building. Skin is a screen on which we can watch the ability of change, healing itself while also witnessing its inevitable decay. It is self-replacing and self-repairing, but once engraved, it never reaches its clarity again. It is living and dead. While in touch with other elements, the envelope is linked with our environment. It is the site of connections and can be the screen letting things through.