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RESUMEN La colonia helioterapica en Legnano, unico ejemplo italiano seleccionado por Alfred Roth para representar la arquitectura emergente de los anos treinta, periodo culminante del Movimiento Moderno, significo la gran oportunidad de constatar el firme compromiso del grupo BBPR con el nuevo espiritu de su epoca. Los multiples factores que intervinieron en el resultado de la obra hacen que se pueda considerar todo un manifiesto, una perfecta sintesis de la ortodoxia vanguardista que guio su primera etapa profesional, cuyo origen radica en un concurso publico de ideas, convocado para satisfacer fines sociales, en un entorno paisajistico de fuerte contraste, con la intervencion de un promotor privado y el telon de fondo de un Estado dictatorial. Un decisivo episodio de la corriente funcionalista que invita a explorar las claves de su concepcion, desvelando los vinculos de la arquitectura moderna con la salud y el bienestar, especialmente derivados de su papel de captador solar y filtro luminico, asi como sus importantes repercusiones espaciales en la relacion entre exterior e interior. SUMMARY The sun therapy colony at Legnano, only italian example chosen by Alfred Roth to represent the emerging architecture of the thirties, Modern Movement’s highlight, meant a great opportunity to confirm the staunch commitment of BBPR studio with the new spirit of their time. The multiple factors involved in the outcome of that work enables it can be considered a real manifesto, a perfect synthesis of avant-garde orthodoxy that led their early professional period, whose origin lies in a public competition of ideas, organized for meeting social purposes, in a landscape of great contrast, with the intervention of a private property developer and the backdrop of a dictatorial State. A crucial episode of the functionalist tendency that invites to explore the keys of its conception, finding out the links of modern architecture with human health and wellbeing, especially coming from its role as solar collector and light filter, as well as its important spatial repercussions in the relationship between outside and inside.