SHEEEP Studio’s BAAA (Back Alley for Art & Architecture) will be the classroom location for Collective Construction and can comfortably accommodate 20 students. Here we will conduct lectures, software tutorials, physical sketch modeling, collaborative design, and short walks to the site nearby. This ideal classroom location fits thematically with the workshop’s theoretical, tectonic, and social positioning. The BAAA classroom is a flexible converted warehouse space and is fully accessible through a large back alley garage door.

“SHEEEP is a Toronto-based experimental art and architecture studio primarily working within community, education, activism, culture, public art and architecture. Our process is highly collaborative and we don’t like to pretend like we have all the answers. We are interested in projects that are human-focused, and public in nature. We enjoy interventions that deal with existing conditions, we value the resources that are poured into infrastructure and buildings and we do our best to work with what exists as much as possible.

SHEEEP is exploring other ways of practicing architecture.

SHEEEP is thinking about architecture beyond buildings. 

SHEEEP is research-based, process-based, non-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary….”

The Design + Technology Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University has generously provided us with eight Bambu P1S 3D printers to be used at the BAAA! for the duration of the course. The lab on TMU’s downtown campus will also be used as a tutorial and fabrication facility for laser cutting. The lab is the most advanced facility of its kind among Toronto’s design schools, with a wide array of 3D-printers, laser cutters, CNCs, robots, and other fabrication capabilities. Laser-cutting technicians will be present to oversee the production of  student work as needed. 

“The LAB is a technology-based workshop that supports creative research, scholarship, curriculum, and entrepreneurship activities across The Creative School and Zone Learning. We look to disrupt and revolutionize the use of technology within creative fields by leveraging digital fabrication tools such as CNC milling, 3D printing, textile computing, AR/VR, and robotics.”