reconstruct

Etymology

re- + construct

verb

1. To construct again; to restore.
   … after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain. July 29 2020, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54
2. To attempt to understand an event by recreating or talking through the circumstances.