Florentine Streetscapes and their Role in Revisiting Palazzo Rucellai’s Urban façade Hypotheses

Abstract The facciata double meaning as façade and outer appearance embodies the Italian city-state’s political, cultural, social values that Leon Battista Alberti outlined in his famed De re aedificatoria libri decem (1485). This concept lies at heart of Florence’s urban fabric: one early cradles Renaissance architecture originated from artistic expenditure prosperous families including, Medici, Strozzi, Rucellai. In this context, Palazzo Rucellai (c.1446-66) marks an important historical moment history its façade, with three superimposed orders well-proportioned composition, was first kind Florence. However, palazzo’s unfinished sparked a debate regarding finished which paper revisits by positioning 3D digital twin onto façade’s historic context applying through Space Syntax to explore relationship fabric.