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5.5 Design Evaluation The impact of autonomous vehicles within the suburban realm has allowed us to unlock a significant proportion of the space for public use. Each of the design scenarios created has sought to redistribute this public space in various ways, depending on the specific amenity goals being focused on. This has resulted in vastly different suburban layouts for each of the scenarios, with some developing centralised or clustered layouts, and some tending towards distributed space within the public realm. The design evaluation stage seeks to develop an understanding of the different layouts for each design scenario. This is done through an analysis of the spatial configuration of the key areas within each case. The aim of this is to develop underlying principles for the layout of each aspect of public realm amenity that has been explored, which will form the basis of a spatial framework. This framework creates the opportunity for the logical integration of multiple design drivers within a single scenario, to provide a more diverse range of amenity features within the public realm. Initially this evaluation is done through diagramming the key amenity areas for
each design driver, and noting the spacing, layout and development patterns that they create. Each of the amenity targets are delivered in the public realm in a different way, and thus result in a suburban form that reflects that intention. Through the deconstruction and analysis of each model scenario, this may give an insight into advantageous layout typologies depending on the desired amenity goal.