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New article name is LV Home

The LV Home is a modern dwelling marketed as a "prefab" or prefabricated kit home by its designer, architect Rocio Romero. Its appearance is a rectangular, flat-roofed, metal structure with two sides comprised primarily of glass. Its dimensions are roughly 50 feet by 25 feet. It has appeared in and on the cover of DWELL magazine several times, and has also received popular acclaim in mainstream press, such as the Wall Street Journal, USA Weekend, CNN, and the Washington Post.

Conceived as a vaction home for her parents, the first LV was designed by Rocio Romero while in architecture school. It was constructed in Laguna Verde, Chile, whose intitials serve as the name of the design. Romero then decided to mass-market the design to modernists, and built a prototype in Perryville, Missouri. The first kit sold was constructed in Virginia as a do-it-yourself project, without the aid of a licensed builder. Since then, more than 100 have been built, though most purchasers build a larger version called the LVL. Several other sizes, both larger and smaller, are now offered, though each design maintains the fundamental appearance of a geometric shell with two sides of glass.

Purchasers of the LV Home, who pay roughly $35,000 for a base model, receive detailed architectural drawings as well as the components necessary to build the shell, or envelope of the home. This includes prefabricated 8-foot wood panels, which can be assembled on site, and the siding, which is typically silver galvalume. The kit does not include any windows, flooring, roofing, or finishes. Though marketed aggressively as an affordable option for modernists, its actual costs to build typically reflect regional building costs for custom construction.