Capstone Blog Post #2 | Elisha

My interviewee is John Coburn.

He works for Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation and he is the Vice-President and Lead Architect.

John Coburn is the dad of my brother’s friend, I interviewed John because he is an architect and he’s been interested in space his whole life.

I used zoom to record mine. At 5:30 PM I interviewed him but, at the end of the interview, the screen recording did not work. So then I had to do the interview all over again. It was very frustrating that I failed a bit on the first try. The first try was kind of like a rehearsal or warm-up.

So we tried contacting AI Space Factory but they didn’t answer and then my brother told us how his friend’s dad is interested in architecture on Mars so then we started the interview.

My questions are:

  1. Why did you want to become an architect?
  2. How did you become interested in architecture on Mars?
  3. What are the (Main) requirements for making a house on Mars?
  4. In your opinion what skills are useful or needed to be building architecture on Mars which are different from the skills needed to build on Earth ?
  5. What are some good materials to build a home on mars and how is it going to protect from radiation, weather, and make it airtight?
  6. David Malott from AI space factory was working on general architecture before getting specialized on Mars. How can your Job help build a house on Mars?
  7. To what extent will we need to use a different technology on Mars than on earth?
  8. Will the architecture be built on planet mars or here and transported here? Will we need AI?
  9. In your opinion what is the most useful AI or robot to build a house on mars?

I don’t know what was the most interesting because all of the interview was interested.

Sometimes I said “um”, and also I had to do the interview twice.