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4 Summary and Outlook
Advanced Building Skins
With new materials like Plexiglas new forms of facades are possible. Especially with various demands
the choice of the material becomes difficult and the performance of common material might be limited.
Acylic material has advantages in the possibilities of machining and illuminating. The examples tried
to show the possibilities in forming like the façade of the Kunsthaus Graz or in structuring like the
Liquid wall or the Reiss façade. The possibilities are not totally used by now. Even in extreme
applications like mega glazing of deep see aquariums or for the windows of deep going submarines the
material is in use.
This paper tried to give an impression of the use of the material and want to inspire for new
applications.
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