Working on reconstruction is accompanied by a set of questions that expand typical design problems: All future design decisions negotiate their justification with a building long gone but very prominent in mind.
The term reconstruction implies the dialectic of two aspirations: the repetition of ‘something past’ and the creation of ‘something new’. A design-work under the subject of reconstruction always requires both. Neither a complete simulacrum of an ancestor nor an alienating new can be considered as a valid contribution. Reconstruction is the task to build a critical link between the previous and the nascent, between memory and vision and the resulting architecture can be read as a manifestation of a specific stance on the subject of reconstruction. 
A reconstructing architectural design is a balancing act between providing sameness and introducing new expressions. By identifying the sameness we simultaneously recognize the difference and vice versa.