The ground floor plan brings together stables, teaching spaces, workshop areas, café and a central demonstration arena, allowing visitors to learn directly from the relationship between horses, forestry and sustainable woodland management.

A mapping of Welsh woodland sites where horse logging has been used for selective felling, woodland restoration and low-impact timber extraction, including a previous horse logging course held at the Centre for Alternative Technology.

Early design studies explored the relationship between horse dimensions, human scale and natural proportional systems. The golden ratio and segmented shell geometries were used as references for the design logic.

A detailed section through one of the fins, showing how the curved roof, metal cladding, glulam structure and concealed connections come together.

This section shows the Cob Canopy Centre stepping into the sloped CAT landscape, with stables positioned to the left and teaching spaces to the right. Horses move up from the stable yard into the central arena.