Does anyone want to make their own furniture - or re-design throwaway garage-sale furniture into funky new creations??

After returning recently from the Bay Area, and visiting the Crucible space (a huge wraehouse collective/school for welding, jewellery work etc. major and minor scale) I have been wishing there were something similar here in Toronto.

I noticed much of the posting here has to do with smaller scale crafts so I hope I am not on a tangent, but this tribe seems to be apporpriate for the topic I am proposing.

The projects I am interested and active in are:

Furniture Design and Construction, personal and for sale
Van, RV and Trailer redesign/renovation
Building Teardrop trailers and custom campers (all eco)
Collectng salvaged/dead/forgotten furniture and recombining into new creations.
All kinds of other related projects requiring woodshop/welding tools and a large, well-lit, ventilated space.

If anyone knows anyone else who'd be willing to embark on such projects, or knows of a collective shop/space - I would be willing to share tools, skills, time, whatever - or I would be happy to learn of such initiatives already!

Any ideas you crafty people?