约吉·贝拉博物馆和学习中心需要更新和扩大其展览和支持空间，以便利用约吉·贝拉、纽约扬基队和棒球的生活课程来传授和促进良好的体育精神、尊重、正直、社会正义和追求卓越。

The Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center needed to upgrade and expand its exhibition and support space for the museum that uses the life lessons of Yogi Berra, the New York Yankees and baseball to teach and promote good sportsmanship, respect, integrity, social justice and the pursuit of excellence. 

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博物馆也希望改变其不受欢迎和防御性的外观。现有的博物馆位于一个小联盟球场外的一个非常紧凑的场地上，从来没有恰当地说明如何表达或展示在里面的有趣的棒球文物；比如10个世界冠军戒指、世界大赛奖杯和由贝比鲁斯签名的棒球。除了展出棒球制品外，该博物馆还是一个学习中心，为年轻人开设领导力、公民意识、个人和社会责任方面的课程。这个非营利性组织面临的挑战是扩大展示棒球最佳纪念品的空间，为团体展示、教学和接待创造空间，并在有限的场地上以非常有限的预算来改变外部入口外观以反映Yogi Bera的形象。

The museum also wished to transform its unwelcoming and defensive appearance. The existing museum is located in a minor league ballpark outbuilding on a very tight site and never properly addressed how to express or display the interesting baseball artifacts held within; such as, 10 world championship rings, World Series trophies, and baseballs signed by Babe Ruth. In addition to exhibiting baseball artifacts, the museum is a learning center where it conducts classes for young adults in leadership, citizenship and personal and social responsibility. The challenge, for this non-profit organization, was to expand space for exhibiting baseball’s finest memorabilia, to create space for group presentation, teaching, and receptions and to transform the exterior entrance appearance to reflect the persona of Yogi Berra within a very modest budget on a restrictive site.

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该解决方案创建了一个单一的透明画廊，作为一个灵活的，多功能展区，协作教学空间和接待大厅。这间只有一个房间的画廊增加了一个“活力”，以展示棒球纪念品和博物馆和学习中心的使命。整体的建筑细节是有目的简单和朴素，以反映谦逊和简单的约吉贝拉。例如，支持加法的结构柱是由两个结构‘T’背靠背组成的，它们形成十字形形状，以尽量减少沿釉面周长的外观。附加有一个明显的存在和影响的主要通道，导致毗邻的小联盟球场，博物馆共享其网站。

The solution creates a single transparent gallery that serves as a flexible, multi-functioning exhibition area, collaborative teaching space and reception hall. This one room gallery addition is a ‘vitrine’ for displaying baseball memorabilia and the museum and learning centers’ mission. The overall architectural details are purposefully simple and unadorned to reflect the humility and simplicity of Yogi Berra. The structural columns that support the addition, for example, are composed of two structural ‘T’’s back to back which form a cruciform shape to minimize their appearance along the glazed perimeter. The addition has a visible presence and impact on the main access road that leads to the adjacent minor league ballpark that the museum shares its site with. 

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透明的展馆允许临时和永久性的展品从沿路行驶的人那里展出。以这种方式，博物馆有一个活跃的正面广告，在学习中心内宣传棒球珍宝和宣传学习中心的使命。为了个性化这个极简的玻璃盒子，约吉·贝拉的签名和他的数字‘8’是陶瓷在玻璃外壳上煎熬。该项目还涉及重新创造展览，展示棒球最好的纪念品，并增加重要的支持空间，使该设施作为博物馆，学习中心和企业活动场所运作。

The transparent pavilion allows the exhibits, temporary and permanent, to be on display from those driving by along the access road. In this way, the museum has an active façade for advertising the treasures of baseball within and promoting the mission of the learning center. To personalize this minimalist glass box, Yogi Berra’s signature and his number ‘8’ are ceramic fritted on the glass enclosure. The project also involved re-creating the exhibits that display baseball’s finest memorabilia and adding important support spaces which allows the facility to operate as a museum, learning center and corporate events venue. 

Architects ikon.5 architects

Location Yogi Berra Museum, Montclair State University, Little Falls, NJ 07424, USA

Category Refurbishment

Area 8000.0 ft2

Project Year 2010

Photographs James D’Addio