The architectural facades play a major role in controlling energy consumption and how to efficiently used in the building. Recently, the adaptive buildings have become more feasible due to their efficient energy consumption and the rapid technological development. The building skins aim to control the transfer of heat to and from the building. With the advent of smart materials and their new properties, the architects have decided to incorporate such properties into the architectural engineering to benefit from them in new buildings. This paper sheds light on the change of shading system strategy in the dynamic facades of buildings; as a material that responds to environmental influences and changes that occur outside the building, namely shape memory alloys (SMA), was chosen as a smart material that can be used to create a new shading system for architectural facades, an alternative to dynamic facades, and an energy saving system for the movement of such facades.