Over 5000 years the black tent helped various nomadic tribes to conquer deserts and mountains facing all obstacles and difficulties of a challenging environment. Being rain-impermeable, windstorm- resistant, heatable by bonfire and in hot regions more cooling than modern tents, the black tent is still unmatched in its qualities.

The extraordinary cooling effect of the black tent can play an important part in subjects of passive cooling and ecological living. Along with the developing doctoral thesis "Black tent canvas - implementation for passive climatisation in architecture" the textile gets thoroughly analysed for architectural implementation.