Military Museum Soesterberg
The National Military Museum of the Netherlands resembles an extensive black slab that seemingly floats above the site of the former military airbase Soesterberg. Beneath its impressive 250 m long roof, the new building unites the collections of the Army and the Air Force. The only additional elements are a glass facade that encloses the building and features varying setbacks as well as cube-shaped interior volumes, one of which penetrates the roof surface and becomes a lookout tower. Visitors approach the museum from higher ground in the north across a broad bridge. The history of the Dutch armed forces is on display on the two levels of the interior cubes. Some of them are open to the 13 m tall space that envelops the building core and continues into the landscape. In this „arsenal“, guns and tanks are arranged on the seamless poured concrete floor. Most of the airplanes – seemingly in wild pursuit – are suspended from the ceiling.
