We scan, build, and tell stories worth keeping.
Heritage Guard teaches 3D scanning and mapping, digitizes places and objects, and helps creatives and organizations tell heritage stories.
- 3D scanning
- Photogrammetry
- Gaussian splats
- Drone capture
- Web-GIS
- Living archives
- Workshops
- Visual concepts
- Social media
Workshops
Hands-on courses in 3D capture, mapping, and digital archiving. Scan & Build stands on its own. The other courses go from Level 1 to Level 2.
Choose a level to see its workshops
Travel workshops are coming soon
Discover & Digitize: 7–10 days in the field, with morning capture, afternoon processing, and an evening talk by a local expert. First destinations: Berlin, Türkiye, Portugal, and Japan.
Selected work
Projects in 3D capture, mapping, and archives.
Heritage digitization
Photogrammetry, Gaussian splats, and drone capture of buildings, objects, and sites. You receive files you can publish, archive, and reuse.
Memory and post-disaster mapping
Web maps and living archives built together with the people who know the place, from interviews to a published map.
Visual concept consultation
For creatives and organizations. We turn an idea into a clear visual direction: references, a look, and a plan to produce it.
Social media management
Planning, shooting, and posting for cultural and creative organizations, with a focus on heritage storytelling.
Workshops and training for teams
Tailored sessions on 3D capture, mapping, and digital archiving for universities, museums, and studios.
Events
Workshops we have run, and the fairs, conferences, and talks we have taken part in.
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About
Heritage Guard is a tech-forward studio operating at the intersection of cultural memory and digital strategy.
Our work ranges from high-precision 3D scanning and photogrammetry to creative direction, content design, and community building. We partner with cultural institutions, research collectives, architects, and tech startups to preserve what matters and shape what’s next.
We also teach. Our workshops in 3D scanning, photogrammetry, Gaussian splats, and mapping are open to students, professionals, and teams, and we design custom sessions for universities, museums, and studios.
Whether it’s an ancient site or a bold new brand, we create digital foundations that last.
Let’s talk
Request a seat in a workshop, join the travel workshop list, or tell us about a project. We reply by email.
Or write directly to hello@theheritageguard.com
Legal
Legal notice
Heritage Guard, Unipessoal Lda
Sociedade por quotas (private limited company)
Avenida 5 de Outubro, nº 102, r/ch
1050-060 Lisboa
Portugal
NIPC (company and tax number): 518509206
Registered at the Portuguese Commercial Registry (Conservatória do Registo Comercial)
Share capital: €1,000.00
Manager (Gerente): Gökçen Kavuk
Email: hello@theheritageguard.com
Images, 3D models, maps, and texts on this website belong to Heritage Guard unless stated otherwise. Please ask before reusing them. External links lead to websites we do not control, and we are not responsible for their content.
Privacy policy
Last updated: November 2026
Who is responsible
Heritage Guard, Unipessoal Lda, Avenida 5 de Outubro, nº 102, r/ch, 1050-060 Lisboa, Portugal (NIPC 518509206) is the controller for personal data processed on this website. Contact: hello@theheritageguard.com.
No cookies, no tracking
This website does not use cookies, analytics, advertising, or tracking tools. Fonts, scripts, images, and 3D models are served from our own hosting, so visiting the site does not send your data to third parties such as Google.
Hosting
The website is hosted by Netlify, Inc., USA. When you visit, the server automatically processes technical data such as your IP address, browser type, the page requested, and the time of access. This is needed to deliver the site and keep it secure (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Transfers to the USA rely on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework and/or the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses.
Request form and email
When you use the request form or write to us, we process your name, email address, the topic you chose, and your message. We use this only to reply to you and, if you request a workshop seat, to organise your participation (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). Form submissions are stored with our hosting provider Netlify, and emails with our email service provider.
We delete requests when they are no longer needed, at the latest two years after our last contact, unless we must keep them longer for legal, tax, or accounting reasons.
External links
Some pages link to other websites, such as YouTube, LinkedIn, or our project atlas. These are plain links: no data is shared with those services until you click and leave this site, after which their own privacy policies apply.
Your rights
You have the right to access, correct, and delete your data, to restrict or object to its processing, and to data portability. To use these rights, write to hello@theheritageguard.com. You may also complain to a data protection authority, in Portugal the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (www.cnpd.pt), or the authority where you live.
Complaints and dispute resolution
If something went wrong, please write to us first at hello@theheritageguard.com.
You can also file a complaint through the official Portuguese electronic complaints book, the Livro de Reclamações Eletrónico.
In a consumer dispute, you may turn to an alternative dispute resolution (RAL) entity: the Centro Nacional de Informação e Arbitragem de Conflitos de Consumo (CNIACC, www.cniacc.pt) or the Centro de Arbitragem de Conflitos de Consumo de Lisboa (www.centroarbitragemlisboa.pt). The full list of RAL entities is published on the Portal do Consumidor at www.consumidor.gov.pt.