 The project of the 1930s
In 1931, four years after the start of the work, Riccardo Gualino was sent to Lipari accused of anti-fascist behaviour. For several years the building remained abandoned, until when the Federazione dei Fasci di Combattimento di Torino decided to use it as a heliotherapy centre, trusting the adaptation project to Luigi Ferroglio, engineer, and to the architects Ferruccio Grassi and Mario Passanti.
The original plant, greatly compromised by the transformation work, was disfigured not only from the architectural point of view but also as a project.
 All the pavilions were used as recovery clinics, dedicated to children of the centre, from then until 1985 it was known in Turin as the " 3 January" Colony. Arriving at the centre from the main avenue in the Hills, the first building was the reconstructed pavilion, and opposite the infirmary pavilion.
On the ground floor, beyond the entrance, were housed the doctors' studio. The chemist's, the microscope cabinet and chemistry clinic, to which the kitchen was subsequently added, the dispensary, the water supply, the living room and two nurses' rooms.
 In the lower part the school classrooms were to be found, the refectory, the kitchen and two huge rooms, with big windows opened at midday, for recreation on the very cold winter days.
Travelling along an avenue lined with trees or along a covered ramp and a gallery one reached the higher parts of the building, where the management offices and dormitories were to be found. In the park were open-air games and a swimming pool with an artificial beach.
Information from "L'Architettura Italiana", (Italian Architecture). May 1935
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