STEPHAN DIEDERICKS UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE
Diedericks ’ thesis , entitled ‘ An Interminable Living Machine ’, explores and addresses the reappropriation of the vacant Mangaung Intermodal Transport Facility ( MITF ) into a living , micro-enterprise factory of change . The reintegration of MITF , otherwise known as the Bloemfontein Taxi Terminal , with its immediate urban context is a fundamental requirement to ensure that the intervention links back into the urban context , thus humanising it . The site was once home to Bloemfontein ’ s first power station . It is this concept of power generation that leads to the catalyst of an ‘ economic power generator ’ by enabling microenterprise development within the reappropriated building . The building recycles itself and reuses these elements elsewhere for traders and business owners . It filters water through biofilters , creating a living building with people that act as a sustainable energy source that creates an interminable system of change and economic growth in Bloemfontein and the Free State .
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