Monday started at six with the roof pour over the main reading room. Ninety cubic metres in one day, with the quarry wall as one side of the formwork.
Testing the light wells
By Wednesday the first light well was open to the sky. We spent the afternoon measuring how far the daylight reached across the floor at different hours.
At four in the afternoon the light hit the far wall exactly where we drew it. The whole team went quiet for a minute.Nadia Hassan
What comes next
The shell will be closed before the first snow. Then the joiners start on the oak shelving, all eleven kilometres of it.
