I am wanting to build a new skin object that will also have an interactive component - if I have something like an edit url string in a link and it is to push the skin object to another view will it act the same as module do and show only that module and no others?

That is what EditURL does. If you need to show other modules while the skin object is in another view is to load controls dinamically (not the DNN ctl but the ASP.NET controls) or show/hide panels with the "visible" property. It is also possible that you will need to use either URL querystrings, viewstate or both to achieve the results you look for.