3D scanning
Gorabilaz
Digitising architectural heritage
Buildings, coats of arms, farmhouses and whole villages, measured through photogrammetry and turned into 3D models.
- Commissions
- 2 research projects · 12 scans
- Personal work
- 7 scans
- Technique
- Photogrammetry
- Kit
- Drone and camera
- @gorabilaz
Work for research projects2 research projects · 12 scans
Commissions
Someone asks; I measure.
I have scanned buildings and villages for two research projects: Daniel Luengas's on manor houses, and Auzo Bizigarriak, by Aritz Diez Oronoz and Ezequiel Collantes. Each job states who commissioned it, what was asked for and what has been scanned.
01Research
Medieval manor houses
Daniel Luengas researches manor houses and commissioned me to scan these buildings. I photograph each one with a drone and a camera, measure it through photogrammetry and turn it into a 3D model. There are sixteen buildings: three are finished, six can be seen in a first render and seven are coming soon.
- Client
- Daniel Luengas
- Brief
- 3D scans of buildings for his research on manor houses.
- Buildings
- 16 · 3 finished · 6 with a first render · 7 coming soon
- Date
- November 2025 – April 2026
02Research
Auzo Bizigarriak
For Auzo Bizigarriak, the research by Aritz Diez Oronoz and Ezequiel Collantes, I scanned three villages with a drone: Olaberria (Gipuzkoa), Durana (Álava) and Muxika (Bizkaia). Each village is measured through photogrammetry and turned into a 3D model seen from the air.
- Client
- Aritz Diez Oronoz and Ezequiel Collantes
- Brief
- Drone scans of three villages for the Auzo Bizigarriak research.
- Place
- Gipuzkoa, Álava and Bizkaia
- Date
- 2025–2026
On my own account7 scans
Personal work
With no one asking.
Hernani's heritage and the Sanctuary of Loyola, scanned without anyone asking. This is where I test and learn, and where the method I use in commissions comes from.
What is Gorabilaz?
“When we say ‘saroiak’ we are not only talking about material things […]: we are talking about human organisation, about rules of measurement (gorabila, gizabetea, hamalau-oina…) and, above all, about rights.”Luis Mari Zaldua Etxabe, Saroiak eta kortak · Translated from Basque
The gorabila, a unit of length of about 13.72 metres, was used in Gipuzkoa to set the boundaries of the saroiak, the old upland pastures. Beyond the measure itself, it bears witness to a way of organising the land: a trace left on our landscape and our history.
Gorabilaz is a project to digitise the architectural heritage at the core of our identity: saroiak, buildings, villages… Its aim is to look after what bears witness to our history and our landscape.
Layers
Each scan is shown in layers, so the same image can be read in different ways.
- Form
The digital mesh, as it looks in the working environment.
- Light
The model without colour. Light reveals form and detail.
- Colour
Colour taken from the photographs, projected onto the 3D model.
Follow the process on Instagram
@gorabilaz ↗«Infernuraino, euskal kulturaz hitz egitera joango banintz.»“All the way to hell, if it were to speak of Basque culture.”
gartzeazaldua@gmail.com