Visionary drawings for weaving visuals of the city. Roberto Loeb’s design for the international competition for ideas for the recovery of the Le Murate complex

This paper is a result of a research that investigates architectural designs developed by both Brazilian architects in Italy and Italian architects in Brazil. Thus, this text presents the study of the architectural design of Brazilian architect Roberto Loeb for the international competition for the Le Murate complex, in Firenze, 1987, based on a careful observation of the original drawings and the wooden model elaborated for the competition. The proposed design, which was not built, is a pathway-building structured in metal that overlaps the urban fabric of Firenze in the 1980s, in a visionary design approach which weaves visual relations within the city. The current research was carried out from the close observation of the drawings prepared by the architect for the competition, and the large wooden model, tri-dimensionally representing his design idea and solution, in addition to reading texts regarding the competition and the architect’s proposal.