Set on the banks of the Volga, the library is conceived as a book that never fully closes. Its walls unfold like pages caught between wind and water, revealing spaces gradually through shadow, silence and light. Inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky’s cinema, the project understands architecture not as an object, but as duration: something entered, crossed, remembered and transformed by time. The river becomes part of the library’s narrative, reflecting its changing form through mist, snow and darkness. Inside, reading rooms, bridges and vertical voids appear as fragments of an unfinished story, suspended between intimacy and immensity. Here, books are not only contained by architecture; architecture itself becomes a form of reading. The visitor turns no final page — the building continues into water, landscape and memory.