Both of these designs were used in Oruleon Monastery, but could work well in a variety of settings.
The window starts with a couple 2×2 bricks in white along with a jumper plate and four long bar.
The black 1×2 bricks are necessary with this window design, as you will see later.
Next some plate with clip are added, along with a few basic white plates.
After adding one more brick, two plate with ring will fit over the four long bar.
And the two 1×2 white plates shown here will continue the white 1×2 columns.
This three piece assembly is the key to the window design.
The black 1×2 technic brick allows a 1×1 round plate with hole to be centered over the plate modified with ring. And you can pull the half pin out just a touch to get the depth to match.
Then a 1×4 arch fits smoothly over the top of the window.
Generally the technic halfpin is invisible, giving the illusion of a floating round plate. As pointed out earlier, this design only works with black bricks behind the window. Though with a three stud thick wall you could replicate the window design for interiors.
All of my roofs for Olureon Monastery were similar to the setup below: 1×2 slopes at the ends topped with cheese, and cheese slopes on top of the regular wall.The design works just as well with buildings that aren’t six studs wide.
To replicate a terra-cotta roof, I used dark orange 1×1 round bricks, 1×1 tiles, 1×2 plates, and 1×2 tiles. Each section of roof also needs two 2×2 plates, as shown here.
By overlapping the 1×2 plates and 1×2 tiles, you can easily make a roof despite the limited parts available in dark orange. The 2×2 plates are used in place of a 1×2 plate on the bottom row of plates, two studs in from either end.
Those 2×2 plates are what hold each roof portion in place.
Then you can cap the roof with more 1×1 round bricks, and a 1×1 tile or two if needed to make the spacing work out.
Quite simple, and we’re certainly not the first to use a design like this. Hopefully this allows you to make some excellent terra-cotta tile roofs of your own!
Plenty of other colors would work nicely in place of dark orange as well.
So there are two designs that we’ve gotten several requests about. Enjoy!
