Posts and Reflections

Project Journal by Architect Michael Cobb.

Monday, November 20, 2023

A Recent Parametric Bedside Table

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Starting with my own circumstance, this piece was designed to be parametrically adaptable to the subtle differences that exist between bedsi...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

AIARE Tour of Obie Bowman Home and Studio

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  AIARE Obie Bowman Home/Studio Tour What’s most vital about the AIA is simply its role as a cultural place where architects are able to gat...
Monday, February 7, 2022

Bringing Digital Fabrication to My Backyard Fence

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Growing up in Northern California, a place that teems with natural beauty, I've had an uneasy relationship with technology. I've see...
Friday, January 7, 2022

Prelude to a Fence

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Ever since I have lived at our present home, there has been a very sad fence on the property line we share with a our neighbor. Like some my...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021

A Recent Study Model for Sebastopol Residence

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A few progress shots of a recent home design we are working on in Sebastopol. The site model is CNC milled laminated MDF with the architectu...
Monday, December 28, 2020

Fastener-Free Studio Table

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The idea for this table was to craft an attractive and usable piece of furniture that was readily reproducible at scale and would be impleme...
Sunday, November 25, 2018

Rhombic Dodecahedron Stool

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This latest chapter in a fascination with folding has been challenging. For several years now I've been interested in using CNC tec...
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Sunday, January 21, 2018

Looking Back at a Greenhouse Built Twenty Years Ago...

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Joyce Gross was kind enough to share with me some recent pictures from her wonderful garden in San Leandro.  She inherited a greenh...
Saturday, September 17, 2016

DIY CNC Cabinetry: Cultivating an alternative to the Home Depot/IKEA model.

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The Cabinet Carcasses I've had a small cabinetry project in the works for a while.  It needed to be done on a shoestring budget....
Sunday, February 28, 2016

Pollarding a tree? Make a Wattle Hut!

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There are a lot of Mulberry trees on our street.  For years, at some point in midwinter, most of my neighbors get out there and pollard ...
Sunday, November 29, 2015

A Grasshopper Routine for Generating Folded Plate Forms

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A routine for generating folded plate structures was recently completed here at the studio using the parametric ...
Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Origami Table

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Mixing memories of childhood origami with "folded plate" structural ideas, has been a rich vein of inquiry for me.  So much is...
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