Thiago Amaral spent years in UAV operations, working on data capture for asset management, before he turned that experience towards New Zealand's heritage. One question kept coming back to him: why does so much of what makes a place worth remembering survive only as a handful of old photographs, or not at all?
Born in Brazil, he moved to New Zealand in 2016, and the country's landscapes and history drew him in almost immediately. His background is in IT and, later, UAV operations, work that took him across asset management and data capture projects in New Zealand and the UAE.
Clark House in Hobsonville was the first answer to that question: a Heritage New Zealand Category 1 listed building, recorded in full as a permanent, photorealistic 3D record and made freely available to anyone who wants to explore it. It began as a public-benefit proof of concept, and it set the standard Tohu Heritage now brings to each new place, one at a time.
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