Torre Reforma is a mixed use high rise building located in La Avenida Reforma, Mexico City. The tower is designed from its detail to its whole, using its tectonic, graphic, performative, and urban conditions as drivers for its form. The morphology derives from a shifting curtain wall system that scales up the facade, creating a shallow relief. The scale and density of the pattern, controls the rate at which the facade shifts. It tapers as it rises to limit the shadow it casts on the ground, and dissolves at its base to frame a sunken public space. The figure and ground reading produced by the facade produces an illusion of depth, where the aluminum “shadow“ panels recede towards the sky, while the glass panels hold the foreground in the form of a textile-like pattern, stamped on the rich city skyline. The interaction between architectural and graphic systems produces an intricate weaving of lines and surfaces that operate on the multiple scales that shape the city.