The building from episode 9 of the build timelapse. It uses the same stack villa design as #07 — six narrow glass storeys jutting out in turn, 31 layers tall — this time in warm smooth sandstone, white concrete, brown terracotta columns and stripped jungle log bands. 2,066 blocks.
The video's 2,935 blocks include landscaping (trees, flowers, hedges); the pattern leaves it out. The same design with a different seed gives a different size and palette, and #09 is two blocks shallower than #07 (21 × 19), a little slimmer.
The key idea — the outline is made on the roof
Looking down on a tall villa, the setbacks and overhangs are hidden by the floors above them. What shapes the outline is what rises above the roof, so the roof gets two structures.
A stairwell, 3 × 3 and 4 blocks tall — it has to clear the roof railing clearly to show in the outline. And a pergola, four posts with slabs on every other cell so the sky shows through. Both are narrow, so the building gets no wider.
Neither is centred. A symmetric roof has the same outline from every side; pushing both to one side makes the shape change with the angle. The same trick makes any build of yours look more three-dimensional.
Layer by layer
LAYER 1–2 — deck and pool. A two-layer 21 × 19 deck, cut sandstone and white concrete mixed into the top, and a 9 × 3 pool (27 water) on the south side.
LAYER 3–5 — ground floor. Brown terracotta columns and glass, wooden louvres on one end, and an open carport beside it.
LAYER 6, 10, 14, 18, 22 — floors. Every 4 blocks, a white concrete floor with orange carpet. The layer above each (7, 11, 15, 19, 23) holds the terrace slab railing and props like bookshelves and azaleas.
LAYER 26–27 — roof. A 13 × 9 sandstone roof deck with slab railing and sea lanterns.
LAYER 28–31 — stairwell and pergola. Off to one side, between columns 6 and 12. The top of the stairwell (LAYER 31) is a 3 × 3 sandstone cap.
Gathering materials
803 smooth sandstone and 219 slabs is 913 blocks with a stonecutter. Smooth sandstone is smelted sandstone, and sandstone is 4 sand, so you need about 3,700 sand — plus 323 for the glass and the decorative sandstone, over 4,000 in all. One desert is plenty; an Efficiency shovel makes it much faster.
Mine 182 brown terracotta in badlands, or dye 8 terracotta (smelted clay) with 1 brown dye (cocoa beans). White concrete uses white dye from bone meal. Orange carpet is 2 orange wool → 3 carpet.