Florentine streetscapes and their role in revisiting Palazzo Rucellai's urban façade hypotheses

Mols, Nick and Pezzica, Camilla ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0512-7591 2023. Florentine streetscapes and their role in revisiting Palazzo Rucellai's urban façade hypotheses. Presented at: Nexus 2023, Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics, Torino, Italy, 12-15 June 2023. Nexus Network Journal. 10.1007/s00004-023-00698-0

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Abstract

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

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Architecture
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	12 April 2023
Date of Acceptance:	14 February 2023
Last Modified:	19 Apr 2023 15:12
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/158590

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