Corollaria Branch

Corollaria Branch is a sculpture created by Nervous System at MIT in collaboration with students from MIT’s Morningside Academy for Design. The 9 foot long aluminum sculpture is made of 130 flat aluminum panels was fabricated completely at the MIT MAD shop over the course of a weeklong workshop taught by Jessica and Jesse. The hollow tree-like form of the design is perforated by an intricate lace-work of cells whose scale and direction morph seamlessly along the surface. The mathematically generated patterns recall the organic forms of bryozoans, polypore mushrooms and plant tissues.

Student team: Maxwell Berger, Joey Dong, Theo Gerst, Teresa Jiang, Adelmo Morrison Orozco, Simon Radhakrishnan, Pria Sawhney, Layla Stanton, and Gloria Zhu

Special thanks: Bill McKenna and John Ochsendorf