3D Model of the Crystal Palace of 1851

In my senior year of college at Longwood University, I was given one year to create a final project worthy of graduating from my arts program. The student got their down time of their second semester of their Junior year to come up with an an acceptable idea of a senior project to present to the programs set of professors. Now I will admit my first idea and back-up failed before the professors at the presentation. However, I didn't give up and took a small comment from one professor and turned it upsidedown. That entire summer I researched online and in the library every chance I could get before compiling the gathered information and painted imagery of the Crystal Palace together to present to the professors. They seemed quite interested, but doubted me highly since the 3D students before me either failed out or went smaller. But what they hadn't known is I had already started modeling before I had even shown them the presentation. Halfway through the year we showed what we completed and that's where it went downhill for me. Turns out I had to completely restart and was advised to do something small and easy and hope they'd go easy on me. I refused however and that's what you're seeing now. With 6 months left and being to hard headed to give in, I worked hard and got to it. You're seeing the empty exterior and interior of the Crystal Palace of 1851. There's hardly any accurate floor plans that I could find of the Palace, but also there was no photographic imagery of it. Only painted imagery from that period. Looking at my page to my portfolio you can find a link to my blog dedicated to it and the progress that went with this project.