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Two slanted, weathering-steel boxes lean into the mountainside above Faqra, tilted just enough to feel like they're caught mid-motion against the slope. They form a pair of vacation houses built for two brothers, sharing a single stone base but each keeping its own volume and privacy. The lean is not just gesture: it orients each house toward the views of the surrounding peaks and the village below, while the glazed short ends open wide to the mountains and the long western faces cantilever outward to form a brise-soleil, shading interiors and breaking the wind without closing off the view. Inside that arrangement, the two volumes take on different roles. The more open western volume holds circulation, suspended terraces, and small gardens threaded between floors; the enclosed eastern volume holds the private, closed-off rooms, and also carries the access bridge and a screened porch that shelters the main entrance and parking below. Throughout, the material palette stays close to the ground it sits on: weathering steel left to rust naturally, and timber screens that soften and grey with the seasons, so that the houses read less as objects placed on the mountain than as an extension of it.