Defibrillator culminates a series of projects that originated at an abandoned, rural New Hampshire home, which Sandbox was granted access to prior to its death.

Portions of the dying structure were dissected, augmented and hinged, to allow the house to be turned inside out. The swinging wall sections then received a phosphorescent coating, activating the newly sunbathed walls with the energy of the sun, which at night cast a blue-green glow through the body of the house.

With a surge of electricity, a custom electronic monitoring system breathes new found life into the walls which have been placed in traction by specialized mechanical steel armatures.

The Defibrillator is activated when the dismembered walls are engaged by its visitors. Changing the position of either wall modulates video projection, site-specific lighting systems, glowing surfaces and the space of the gallery itself.

Additional zones of phosphorescence, on the gallery walls, capture and mark these fleeting human and architectural movements.

Sandbox, an architectural design collaborative, works in the physical realm of architectural design and construction as well as the digital realm of new media and the web. Collective interests center on sustainability, urbanism and the connection of our digital and physical environments. Sandbox operates out of offices in New York and Chicago and includes 5 members: Bruce Engel, Damen Hamilton, Thomas Kearns, Sam Keller and Rick Kintigh.