Teatro D. Maria II · Full-building 3D capture
A full 3D capture of one of Portugal's most iconic theatres — interior, exterior and the Rossio plaza around it. Built to serve both marketing (a virtual front-door to the public) and technical use (touring companies measuring stage, fly tower and back-of-house dimensions before they ever land in Lisbon).
The Teatro Nacional D. Maria II sits at the head of Rossio square — one of Lisbon's most photographed locations, and one of Portugal's most active stages. Two problems, one project:
Marketing: the theatre wanted a virtual front door — a way for first-time audiences, school groups, and international visitors to walk through the building online before deciding to come. Programme intro, architecture, the works.
Technical: touring productions arrive with set, lighting and rigging plans drawn around a venue they've never been inside. Getting accurate measurements normally requires a site visit. The theatre wanted to ship a measurable 3D model of every working space — stage, fly tower, wings, dressing rooms, get-in routes — so companies anywhere in the world could pre-plan against the real geometry.
Public-facing + back-of-house, captured as one.
We scanned every space — front-of-house lobby, auditorium, balconies, stage from house side, stage from upstage, fly tower, wings, dressing rooms, the corridors that connect them. Same registration, same scale, walk-through from any room to any other.
Outside in.
The building doesn't exist without its setting. We added drone passes over the roof and the Rossio façade, plus exterior scans of the surrounding plaza so a remote visitor can stand outside the door before walking in. The whole thing reads as a continuous experience, not a slideshow of rooms.
Measurable, not just viewable.
Every space is captured at survey-grade precision — touring companies can measure stage depth, wing widths, fly heights, get-in widths, anything that affects a load-in plan, directly inside the tour. Less guesswork, fewer site-visit days, faster booking decisions.
The first capture has lived inside the institution as a working reference since delivery — used in technical exchanges with touring productions and as the spatial baseline against which subsequent changes are checked.
The building has since gone into a major renovation, and a second capture is scheduled for the reopening — same scope, updated geometry. The public link goes here when it goes live.