With the ascent of robotic architecture in academic discourse, we ought to reconsider how we understand building cognition. This paper revisits the Rietveld Schröder House from 1924 as a precursor of robotic building. With a built-in capacity for change, the building (now a museum and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site) has a highly adaptable space plan that could be continually reconfigured by its occupants. The agency of change is shared between the house and its occupants, most notably Truus Schröder, who lived in the house for 60 years. This paper takes a material engagement approach to explore the relation between the occupant and the house and speculates how this might be a model for designers of contemporary and future robotic architecture to rethink concepts of autonomy and agency in building cognition.

随着机器人建筑在学术话语中的兴起，我们应该重新考虑我们如何理解建筑认知。本文重新审视了 1924 年作为机器人建筑先驱的 Rietveld Schröder House。该建筑（现为博物馆并被列为联合国教科文组织世界遗产）具有内在的变革能力，具有高度适应性的空间规划，可以由其居住者不断重新配置。改变的动力由房子和它的居住者共享，最着名的是在房子里住了 60 年的特鲁斯施罗德。本文采用物质参与的方法来探索居住者与房屋之间的关系，并推测这可能如何成为当代和未来机器人建筑设计师重新思考构建认知中的自主和代理概念的模型。