Drawing: The Mirror Where the Absent is Looked. The Case of Monteria Public Market Designed by Horacio Rodriguez Massimo Leserri 1,2(&) , Alma Benitez 1 , and Dayan Guzmán 1 1 Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Montería, Córdoba, Colombia massimo.leserri@upb.edu.co 2 Università di Salerno, Salerno, Italy Abstract. Surveying and restoring a current heritage reality allow to reveal its current shape, as well as transformations the architecture itself had to undergo in its own history and that could disappear over time. The post-figuration exercise, achieved through gathered data, allows to build a memory through representa- tion. Similarly, contexts in which an entire or fragmented reality, material or immaterial, has been destroyed or never built, can be considered. An architec- tural explorer seeks information and experiments methods and instruments to reaf firm heritage value of an architecture or design. This is the context of the covered market for Monteria city, in Colombia, designed by architect Horacio Rodríguez from Medellin in the early twentieth century. A market conceived but never built which was thought to change the city’s identity, intended to be graphically rebuilt despite the absence. Keywords: Architecture Á Graphic restoration Á Market Á Colombia 1 Introduction and Background This research study has been developed within the framework of a research project aiming at surveying some emblematic cases of heritage architecture from the Colom- bian Caribbean region; based on several experiences of current heritage’s architectural surveys already done. Despite hardship of finding outcomes, since most of the infor- mation is entrusted through oral tradition and rigorous documentation, it has been possible to find bibliographic sources completely dedicated to never-made designs, i.e., non-existent architectures. Hence, the basis of proposing a research route, allowing to move towards graphic reconstruction (Senderos 2017), to complete and integrate the preserved documentation on a specific architectural case. 2 Discussion Current or existing architecture is very common to be surveyed, i.e., constructed buildings part of the heritage reality (Rossi 2003). It consists of doing an analysis or research by using architectural survey as a strategy; an opened source of knowledge, © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 L. Agustín-Hernández et al. (Eds.): EGA 2020, SSDI 5, pp. 45–54, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47979-4_5