Prana,
thanks for your words, that threw a bit different light on the thing.
To answer your worry about "Natural":
It is always a problem of interpretation, as Kincaid has said.
You said that today everyone takes care of his own inner environment, which is in disharmony with the outer space. I agree.
Natural, in my view, is something what I feel as harmonious. Harmonious as the state where none (living) element suffers. Man was born somehow weakened and somehow advanced. Today, when more and more people want to be independent and get the most of their terrestrial lives, it is impossible to achieve harmony using today technology. It is like a moving train, and there are some tracks ahead, which lead to disaster, and some which promise a harmony. Our task is to patiently search and show the ways to harmony between mankind and Earth.
My vision of superskin is a sketch. I want to show what is at the far end of one way (End? Of course, relatively..). This way leads through knowing the principles, which are hidden in nature, and using them in a new way - to fulfill our needs.
For example building a house on the basics of these principles, developing clever facades and roofs. In the design there should be contained not only these technological (or biological?) information, but certainly the socio-psychological , cultural and other aspects. The technology should always be an instrument. It may give the creators new possibilities, but not rule their minds.
When talking about superskin, we should re-value many things. A human, wearing a superskin, would not be a man as we know him/her. Was a human the same 5000 years ago? I think not. Not mentally. Some centuries in future, human will be different. Environment will be different. I hope that the relation between human and outer world will be harmonious one time.
Today it is not, and even if some people don't like the world "global", I think we are getting global. Global society has minuses and pluses and all I can do is to evolve pluses and avoid minuses. I think there is no way back to self-sufficient and harmonious (but separated) communities. Once we tasted freedom, the most of us cant live other way. It is a form of life, our Earth with mankind on it. And every life evolves. Dynamic or unpredictable evolution is such interconnected with life that trying to conserve some state of things is against life.
That's why I give human the right to change the environment, BUT in harmony with it. Doesn't forest change the environment, when it spreads? Where the grass and flowers were growing, twenty years later we find the trees. Yes, spreading trees changed the environment, and does it mean disharmony? I think not. Trees created new environment, and there is much space left where they can grow, but grass and flowers can..
You may reply, that in many cases the natural competition between species is crude and leads to extinction of weaker ones. Yes, it is like that. If we stand out our meaning of harmony, where every species is original and mustn't extinct, we must know much about nature before we try to change something.
Unfortunately, many changes made till today were short-sighted.
It is good to show mistakes of our civilization to everybody. People then begin thinking upon that.
And it is good to show how nature-and-human-friendly buildings are interesting.
I look forward to building my first biohouse.