Offline Together
A Post Digital Detox Retreat for the Post-Digital Generation
T.T. Tran Thien (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
A.E. Rout – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
M. Mateljan – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
This project investigates the role of architecture in addressing digital dependency among young adults in an increasingly connected society. Situated within the transforming industrial landscape of Binckhorst, The Hague, the proposal reimagines a post-industrial waterfront site as a digital detox retreat that offers temporary withdrawal from the pressures of everyday urban life.
Through a carefully structured sequence of private, communal, educational, and therapeutic spaces, the project explores how architecture can support processes of reflflection, grounding, and reconnection. Drawing on phenomenological theories of perception and contemporary critiques of digital culture, the design examines how spatial experience, materiality, and engagement with nature can encourage slower forms of attention and foster embodied ways of being.
The project proposes a new typology of urban retreat: a place where architecture becomes a tool for restoring balance between digital connectivity and human experience.