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The current global warming caused by the enormous negative effects of climate change rings alarm bells to humanity. It requires a colossal cooperation of scientific researchers and practitioners in all professions to invent innovating solutions to reduce the impact of global warming. In fact, the use of kinetic facades in architecture helps to save up to 50% of energy used in office space and to reduce 20% of CO2 emissions of entire building. Thus, how effective can the use of kinetic facades be in different climate regions? This research employs Grasshopper to design kinetic facades based on Minimal surfaces. DIVA 4.1 and LadyBug software based on the EnergyPlus are used to generate output data of energy use for cooling system of kinetic facade and 06 conventional facades in Berlin, Ho Chi Minh and Las Vegas in two SRES scenarios (A1FI and B1) of the IPCC in 2020, 2050 and 2080. The output data shows that the performance of the kinetic facade is approximately 40% higher than the facade with high-performance double glazing. Meaning, there is great potential to apply kinetic facades in various places on Earth in the current context of severe climate change.