With the developing technology, innovative and creative designs have found application in buildings and the building shells, which are accepted as static elements, mostly remaining unresponsive to the changing needs and conditions of the space, have undergone change and transformation. Adaptive building envelope (ABE), a part of this change and transformation, can respond to external environment parameters and user needs in real-time. The development and applications of these envelope technologies, which promise maximum efficiency and minimum energy consumption, have recently gained momentum. However, their construction costs are high due to their complex structures. Therefore, decisions made at the early design stage are essential. The ABE design specializes in itself depending on the differences in external environmental factors such as solar radiation, outdoor temperature, humidity, wind, precipitation and noise, depending on the latitude and longitude of the building. Within the scope of the literature review, the features of ABE have been classified, and the adaptation features seen in the existing examples were determined. It has been determined that the use of ABE as a shading component in the analyzed samples is the most common building scale. Parametric design support tools, which have come to the fore in recent years, enable faster and more comprehensive results by enabling performance evaluations of different options in the ABE design process. This study aims to determine the potential of adaptive shading components with different movement abilities to improve visual comfort conditions at the early design stage by following a parametric approach. With a parametric design tool and its add-on selected in line with this aim, the visual performance of the adaptive shading component designed for an office building in Istanbul climatic conditions was evaluated by looking at the illuminance levels (D-lux) and glare values (DGP). Within the scope of the study, six shading components that show folding, rotation and sliding movements in both vertical and horizontal directions were examined. The simulations carried out for the office room facing the south direction showed that the folding and rotation movements positively affect the visual performance in the space. In contrast, the sliding movement had a negative effect. The folding movement of the horizontal panels has been the optimum solution that provides visual performance. For the 21st of June, no glare problem was encountered in all possibilities.