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In recent design programs and studies at the TU (Vienna University of Technology) the biological paradigm has been successfully introduced in architectural design. The focus of this paper is on the common analogy between biological skins and technical facades that was investigated in students' projects at the TU and is now developed further in the study BioSkin led by the AIT (Austrian Institute of Technology).
Gruber et al. (Tue,) studied this question.