Studio Cobe is a Melbourne-based practice designing warm, enduring and rigorous architecture and interiors. Our architecture is detailed and refined, with welcoming, light-filled interiors tailored to everyday life, gathering and shared experiences.

Embracing a rich, textural palette of high-quality natural materials, our buildings and spaces are imbued with atmosphere and energy. Cohesive, balanced and connected to their environments, our buildings carefully frame the landscape and capture seasonal light, sounds and smells.

A strong consideration for sustainability ensures our architecture and interiors endure.

Our process is collaborative and tailored to each project.

We work closely with our clients throughout — understanding how you live, what you value and what you want from a home forms the foundation of the brief. Through regular conversations and design reviews, we explore ideas together, guiding decisions on planning, form, materiality, functionality and budget.

INTEGRATED ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIORS
Architecture and interiors are distinct disciplines, but we believe they are most successful when considered together.

When Studio Cobe is engaged for both, architecture and interiors develop in parallel from the outset. Rather than treating the interior as a separate layer applied to the architecture, planning, form, materiality, joinery and detailing are considered as parts of one design.

This creates continuity between the building and its interior, allowing ideas established at the scale of the architecture to carry through to the smallest details. Studio Cobe can be engaged for Architecture, Interior Design, or both as an integrated service.

Studio Cobe is led by Kate Corke, a registered architect and interior designer. Kate completed her Master of Architecture at the University of Melbourne and Bachelor of Design in Interior Design at RMIT and Leeds Metropolitan University. She founded Studio Cobe in 2022, after working on commercial and high-end residential projects at leading Australian architectural practices.

Kate is active in the architecture community, leading design studios at Monash University, RMIT and the University of Melbourne. Her teaching and research are focused on design and the evolution of Australian housing. She is particularly interested in how planning, materiality and form can coexist with energy efficiency and performance to produce beautiful, functional and sustainable buildings.

Kate and the team can be found in their Elwood studio, surrounded by design books and material samples, where continual research and exploration underpin a practice focused on considered, sustainable and enduring design.