The challenge of camouflage in architecture as means of efficiency

Abstract

Abstract: International Conference on Civil and Architecture Engineering ICCAE-10-2014Building is one of the most dangerous activities, for both man and Earth. More dangerous when it is less useful to living, but damaging when its nature does not establish relations with the context of the place. And regarding tothe contemporary city it has lost its original meaning and its traditional shapedue to the degeneration of buildings.MeanwhileCamouflage phenomenon may be attached to the solution of such problem, as for natural species it means the concealment by means of several combined adaptations with the surrounding environment that allows the organisms to remain unnoticed to keep them living in an efficient way. And this concept has been spread within the urban context since the First World War as an intelligent deal with the space to achieve the maximum benefit with least amount of loss. So the researcher put a hypothesis thatnowadays there are various aspects of camouflage which can be used to solve the strange problems in the urban realm but there is no real criterion appeared to design the efficient camouflage building.Although more work has been done on the so called adaptive designswhich can react reversibly to their surroundings responding to the sustainabledevelopment as; environmental, social or economical,As such designs stands for over a long period of time depending on their passive and active components, and they could be related to the concept of camouflage. So the research aims to declare for the presence of camouflage aspects within their various shapes in architectureespecially those referring to several patterns andresponding to the efficiency issue, to give a guideline for designingefficient camouflagedbuildings.