“The hope on picking up a book; that it will tell us what we know but haven’t had time to think.”- Alain De Botton

A book has a structure and order. An order that can be entered briefly, as one flicks through its pages, encouraging the read to enter within. The library and structure are one, envelopingthe internal spaces. Books, desks and communal seating are located within the perimeter of the building allowing one to inhabit the structure along the edge, flooded in light andsurrounded in a wealth of knowledge. As one has a conversation with the author, within an environment they negotiate with the architect. A rhythm that could be made legible by acomposer’s hand. This enables the internal arrangement to be free space, allowing the ingenuity and spontaneity of the community to occupy and adapt the space over time. Thebuilding could be described in one detail. A larch glulam structure surrounds and creates the space in which two concrete cores are inserted. Inspiration was found in works; SantaMaria Della Pace Engraving by Bramante, New Hall for National Library painting by Etienne-Louis Boulee and the treatment of turning the corner in Palazzo Ducale, Urbino. Thecontrast between man-made and natural materials is as intentional as the thoughts, ideologies, philosophies and rituals of mankind scrolled upon papyrus three thousand years before.A testament to an age-old tradition of mankind cataloguing and sharing their communal, social, and cultural history through man-made objects for posterity.