How to Build: Greek Temples in Minecraft! By an Architecture Student

Yo bros and welcome to a minecraft tutorial  video whoa we’re back finally with the video   today we’re talking about greek temples  um and specifically how to build them   in minecraft i do want to preface this by saying  this is not going to be a block by block tutorial  

Um this is not the greek type of me building  this is just kind of some uh just creative   testing world but i was just trying to practice  some ideas and you know before the video just  

To make sure i had something but really i want to  talk about uh how to build these greek temples and   specifically through um well this rain is  not helpful i’m gonna get this whoa thunder   yes i want to give a tutorial and basically  give um sort of an outline of how greek  

Temples actually are constructed um in  plan and through section to really give   you know give you a guideline to create your  own greek temples that are sort of accurate to   uh real life and that will sort of begin to  look like real life this is just kind of some  

Again just some a bunch of different testing  a bunch of different blocks and stuff   so we’re actually going to quit this  and we’re going to go start a new world   so while our wallets loading up the first thing  i want to talk about is the plan of the greek  

Town this is really how you want to build this  to start by just building like one block at a   time kind of on the lower layer and yeah this is  probably a really good outline for how to do that  

So let’s kind of go over this a little  bit so you have the sort of stepping up   thing so you kind of see you have these sort of  steps leading up to it that’s kind of like the  

Base and that’s kind of where you’re going to  start and with the square the other thing you   really have to plan out really importantly  is these columns because that’s obviously   the main part of the project and once you sort of  plan it out and plan it’s pretty easy to sort of  

Understand what it’s going to look like when  it goes up so we’re going to start with that   and kind of creating sort of a colonnade here  that like kind of resembles something like this   so we can’t use marble but we’re going to use  these blocks just took a bunch of quartz and  

A bunch of sandstone again not a black blah blah  tutorial so please don’t expect uh don’t you don’t   actually have to get these blocks but these are  some some ideas of blocks that you could use for  

Your project feel free to like you know swap them  out with anything else so remember that plan i’m   going to start with kind of just laying out some  columns here um you can probably either go this is  

Actually a really important step for the actual  thing the first step actually how how wide you   want to make these actual columns because you can  make it sort of uh one by one tall and that’s why  

We’re going to do now but you can also go uh two  by two like this and that actually can allow you   to make more detailed columns you can imagine you  know the sort of bottom being like this and kind  

Of it kind of made me look more like that or maybe  rounding it off it kind of looks like a column   however i think that honestly looks a little  bit too big and kind of clunky for minecraft  

And i don’t think it looks as nice so i’m just  going to go with single block columns for now um   another decision we can make is you can have a  two-space or a three-space um this is a size it  

Just kind of depends on the size if you’re making  a smaller tower or a smaller uh temple it may make   more sense to have it b2 but for this one this  is pretty big we’re gonna go with the three space  

And then uh going on kind of a picture we’re gonna  go by it with a six by thirteen with the columns   so let’s start with the six so one two three uh  with the three space in the middle three in the  

Middle here again three in the middle so that’s  one two three four five and then one two three   so then we have six columns here on the front  with three spaces in between them again this  

Does not if you have to be the same number that  you do um depending on the area uh that you’re   building in because you might not be in a super  flat area so you might have the space or you may  

Have more space or you want to build bigger the  thing you should uh keep in mind is you probably   want to have a middle um somewhere in here it’s  nice to have it between two columns like this  

Is kind of like the main entrance so i just  recommend having that and then on the sides here   we’re going to do 13 so we’re going to do this  again so three space in between so that’s one two   three four five six seven eight  nine ten eleven twelve thirteen  

Oh 13. don’t do what i did i almost forgot the  number 11. so yeah so this is basically the corn   like how big this is going to be and you can  kind of imagine how big it’s going to be this  

Is where you can sort of decide your size this  is the size we’re going to go with you kind of   want to have this sort of rectangular shape so let  me just really quickly fill the rest of these in

All right so now that we have that another thing  you’ll notice on the plan here are these sort of   rectangles that surround the columns these are the  stereo bait and style of butt which are basically  

These sort of steps uh leading up to the temple  that really act as the base of the temple and   kind of give it that sort of grand feeling so in  survi if you’re doing this in survival um you can  

Probably get away with only using one layer of  stairs around uh since course is usually kind   of expensive and maybe you don’t want to do that  but since we’re in creative and we want this thing   to look really cool we’re gonna use two layers  all right so we’re gonna start the outer layer  

One block away from the columns we’ve made just  like that and then we’re going to have the next   layer in between those just one up as you’d expect  you may want to build this below the column layer  

Um but for now we’re just going to raise these  columns up just like that all right so it’s   going to look sort of like this so maybe it  actually makes sense to have your columns   up two blocks so it starts on this level since  this is gonna be underground because again it’s  

Just another survival tip so keep that in mind  and then basically this is gonna go all the way   around um there’s another area you know you have  some room for creativity you can only do it on  

The front you can do do whatever you want so i’m  gonna do this around like this be back in a second all right so now that we have that now we have  the stereo bait and the style bait set up this  

Is basically the base and this is basically  the pedestal that it sort of rests on you can   kind of see that in the background a little  bit there but yeah this is being the main   pedestal that your building sits on and this is  going to really give it that authentic feel so  

So moving on we’re still missing the middle  part here of the plan so we’re also going   to add the cella and the porches that are shown  in the picture uh one of the reasons is because  

It’s going to make this thing look you know more  realistic it’s going to give it more of like a   stronger it’s going to look more like a building  instead like a see-through thing but also um this  

Space in the real temples are the most sacred and  the protected most protected spaces so this could   be where you know basically if you’re building  this in survival or like a storage room um the   parking that was actually used as a treasury so  that wouldn’t really be that crazy to do that so  

There you go so we’re to do that now it’s probably  going to be up higher but we’re going to build on   this kind of the same kind of ground level so  we’re going to go kind of 208 oops i may not  

Use that block actually we’re going to go there  and then we’re going to sort of basically follow   the same column line this and keep it on the same  sort of grid you see what i’m saying so the same  

With the three kind of space and basically  do the same sort of thing as you did here   now we’re going to do the same on the other side  as well so we’re just going to come over here  

Do that that that that and then just for just  for future uh design we’re gonna make this wall   look nice we’re gonna we’re gonna continue this on  the walls here so keep the pillars kind of going   like that and then we’re gonna  do it on the same on this side

Okay so now that we have that i’m actually  going to fill in the base here um before i   fill in these walls here i kind of realize you’ve  done this earlier uh because again these blocks  

Aren’t gonna be at this level they’re going to be  a little higher up so i’m going to really quickly   fill this in um for this i’m just going to use uh  blocks of quartz i think okay yeah so i’m going to  

Use these basic kind of coarse blocks they kind of  have a nice sort of tile look and i’m just going   to do that and fill that in all the way around  and then i’m going to raise the columns up as well so i’ll be back for one second

Okay so now we’re back to the area and we’re  now we’re just gonna fill in these walls where   the cell is gonna be i’m just gonna use quartz  bricks just because it kind of has that sort  

Of i don’t know i think it looks nice i’m  gonna do like that if they had a sort of   coarse wall i’d probably use that instead  just to make it look a little bit thinner  

Uh and that would add a little more depth but  there is no quick pulse yet so we’re just gonna   keep it like this and we’re gonna  continue doing the plan here all right so we’ll make the porches  so just do it on the line up with the  

Cut like the column layer behind it and  then we’ll fill in these just like that   and these would be sort of like  entrances and do the same on this side   so we’re gonna go four blocks in right  here basically in line with the grid  

Uh kind of keeping this kind of yeah keeping the  same kind of proportions and stuff like that keep   it pretty square so this is the plan we have  so far this is kind of looking like what the  

Picture is looking like a little bit all right  so now it’s time to go vertical with this thing   and we’re going to start with the columns  building them up so in greek architecture   there are three different types of columns and  styles really there’s dork ionic and corinthian  

I think dork lends itself best to minecraft since  there is no base and the capital really isn’t as   detailed as the ironic and corinthian ones are so  the columns are pretty you know straightforward so  

The way we build them is we’re just gonna go one  two ten blocks up so one two three four five six   seven eight nine ten uh these columns are about 10  meters tall so about yeah it’s about roughly the  

Same size and then at the top here we’re going  to have the capital which is at the top of the   column and we’re basically going to wrap ups  and down staircases around that just like that   so that’s the first column and we’re basically  going to do that everywhere you see a column

Just want to mention it does not have to be this  high again uh depending on the scale of your uh   depending on the scale of your build you  know you may want to have it different   heights to make it look proportional  i think just this just going by just  

The kind of realistic proportions of these  kind of this kind of proportion i think 10   worked pretty well so yeah if you feel  free to adjust that as you see fit so all right now that you’ve done  all the outer columns guess what   you gotta do these columns too baby

All right so these columns will be part  of the cello wall so we don’t have to add   the capitals to them um where the walls are  going to be like this build these walls up   just to get we’re just going to add some  more texture in the walls just because um  

I’m choosing to use all white you don’t  have to but i’m using all white and so   in order to kind of create texture in the  wall you have to use kind of different blocks   and such so we’ll do that and then we’ll  add these columns in right here like that

And then we’ll do it on this side as well and then we’ll raise these columns up as well yes we don’t need these ones on  these because we lost as well   so now let’s take back see what we’re doing  here so all right starting to look pretty  

Good i think starting to look like more  like the one over there in the distance   i’m still not quite there though we got to fill  in these walls real quick in the cella so for this  

I’m just going to be using let’s use the normal  quartz blocks again let’s see what that looks like and of course we’re not ready  for this and then remove the   top layer we’ll go back with the bricks like that how does that look

You know you all crazy too you can have  like some chiseled something like that yeah you can come up with kind  of your own little wall design   here for this build though i think we’ll just  go we’re just gonna keep it simple so we’ll  

Have it like that so let’s build a little  bit of course blocks in like all the way okay so i actually made a mistake we’re going  to make this let this inner layer right here   because it lines up with the column version like  these also columns like that so sorry about that  

Again these are again optional the interior all right so now you should have something that  looks like this so this is probably a good place   to stop on the cella and we’re gonna start to  work on you know that the top part of the temple  

Here and we’re gonna start first by building  the sort of layers that come before that so   if we look at a section real quick you’ll notice  that above the columns and below the triangular   piece called the pediment there are two different  layers one the architrave and then the freeze  

The architrave are the beams that kind of  go across the columns and then right above   that is the freeze where the triglyphs and  sculptural pieces come in there’s also the   cornice that kind of sticks out above that and  so we’re going to start with the architrave  

Which is the smooth part we see and we’re  probably going to use smooth quartz blocks   just because it kind of has that same kind of  look and we’re going to build it like right above  

Where the kind of the grid is all right and  we’re just going to build that all the way around so right above the architrave we’re going  to try to create the freeze which is the   sculptural part and we’re going to add a little  triglyce by adding little column blocks so we’ll  

Do that every other block and then in between  those we’ll use you could use chiseled or maybe   let’s see what quartz bricks looks like that’s  tough i think i think we’re gonna go chisel for   this but again you can do kind of whatever  you want so we’re gonna go every other block  

Chiseled and then every other block a oops  a column or the pillar block i should say okay sweet so now we have that layer around and  just to make this a little bit more detailed   we’re gonna actually gonna add a layer  of slabs on the sort of the bottom half  

Of this layer so like this we’ll have some blocks oops not like that though we’re gonna  have these blocks going all the way across   like that and don’t miss the spaces and so now  again we’re going to do this all the way around   so we’ll build this up bottom layer

Okay so now that we have the sort of bottom layer  we’re going to build the next layer of slabs   on this block which is the top half  of these kind of sculptural blocks   and we’re going to build it like that and  we’re also going to do is we’re going to  

Every other block kind of where the where  the column is starting we’re going to build   up on these blocks so we’re going to go  like that let’s actually do this first okay so now we have that now let’s layer this  top layer all the way all the way around as well  

You can do this kind of at the same time if you’d  like as the bottom layer but i’m staying like this okay so now we have something like  this and this is looking kind of good  

So we’re going to raise from this corner we’re  going to put a slab here and we’re going to   start the pediment now aka the roof which  you can kind of see in the background there  

So we’re gonna go one block up on this corner  two slabs up on this block so a full block   and then the top half of that we’re gonna start  building basically blocks of two half slabs and  

We’re gonna build this all the way up diagonally  up until we get to the middle which should which   we should have an easy middle which is why it’s  nice to have a three system which is right there  

Yep so that’s the middle so we’re gonna do this on  the other side as well so we’re gonna go one block   up two blocks up like that and then on top half of  that we’re going to start building diagonally up  

Uh here i’m choosing some smooth quartz i think  it’s a decent block but yeah so now here we have   the pediment and now this is really starting to  look like a greek template it’s really starting  

To get get the feeling and probably good stuff  to do actually now also is to just back up   this this wall and give it sort  of a background i’m going to use   chisel quartz just to kind of give it like a  structural or sorry more of a sculptural look  

Since this is kind of like where the you know  the sculptural pieces of the temple kind of are   um you can see a lot of cool designs and  intricate stuff so we’re gonna do that but you   can use any other block it doesn’t really matter  because we’re gonna be covering this up anyways  

And what we’re gonna do now is we’re  going to kind of add our statues in this   so i’ll just use the sort of uh the smooth like  this basically any uh stairs and slab and just  

Kind of go crazy a little bit you know build maybe  like a random random pattern we’ll do something   like this we’ll do something like uh i don’t know  like a radiating thing so do something like that  

I don’t know we’ll do we’ll just do that all  right there we go so that’s a sculpture you know   actually no this is too much  of a face i’m gonna change that there we go so now now this is looking better this  is looking like kind of sculptural and interesting  

And again it doesn’t really matter what it is it’s  kind of just random on this other build over here   actually and so yeah so this one is a little bit  different it’s kind of like the radiating idea  

But it’s a little bit i think better done and  then we go around to the other side you can see   a different sort of freeze uh this is kind of  maybe more something that we built but this is  

Just again another random pattern of sculpture it  doesn’t really matter what it looks like now here   comes a major decision for you guys is the roof  color material i think red sandstone is actually a  

Pretty nice block i don’t know why kind of the red  and the white kind of really looked nice together   if you notice in the other build i actually used  copper and i think that also looks pretty nice  

It’s kind of a similar thing and um let’s see  for this build what am i going to use um i think   for this build we’re going to use the copper i  don’t know i just kind of like the look of it  

Um it has like that sort of a nice tile uh look um  that i’m kind of going for you can maybe you could   wax this if you don’t want it to rust because it  will kind of oxidize i should say and turn blue i  

Think that actually might look kind of cool to be  honest but you know you do you you do whatever you   whatever it looks best for you so we’re gonna  do that but actually really quickly before we  

Uh extend this out i want to do the little  statues that you may have noticed on that on   the sort of the corners so we’re going to get rid  of this slab right there uh we’re going to build   two temporary blocks up like that then put  an upside down staircase like that okay  

And then we’re gonna do that there we’re going to  do it on this little piece right there on the top   and then we’re gonna do it on this corner  as well and then eventually obviously we’re  

Gonna copy this to the other side but before we  get there let’s start uh the roof a little bit   so i’m going to time-lapse that and get the  roof kind of all the way across be right back

And actually while you’re up here it may be  a good idea to do the oh wait hold on i have   to go my block here we go it may be a good  idea to do the upside down staircase thing   just while you’re up here and  then we’re going to go down

Okay so now we have the backdrop and  we’ll do another kind of pattern here   i don’t know let’s do i want to draw like  a central figure maybe like uh i don’t know   like another guy that could  be this could be someone else  

Another god or something let’s do that and then  we’ll just kind of make them go smaller every time like that again super kind of random this  guy is the holiest he gets a little crown uh sure why not let’s go with that we’ll add  another little stair in the corner again  

Just go crazy with it uh he had let me add  something in this right there between these   two guys i don’t know maybe they’re in love all  right nice see look at that a little sculpture   and now i’m going to now i’m going  to continue the roof all over

All right so now that we’re done with that   take a breath we’re good all right so now we  got that we have another big decision to make um   you can either continue this layer in copper and  make this kind of all the way like that or the uh  

Smooth redstone or even like any sort of wood if  you’re interested in that i think wood could also   look really nice burger instead of that um instead  of continuing that all the way across like making   this one continuous thing i’m actually gonna make  it uh smooth quartz again i think this would make  

It look like a little nice and just kind of  added a little it’ll add a little structure to   it uh try not to break the blocks uh the roof  while you’re walking on it not super useful   but yeah so we’re gonna build this  little thing across just like that

All right so now your temple started to look  like this now this is looking nice this looks   like a real temple in my opinion oh yeah  shaders this thing’s looking sweet again   you see the other one in the background they’re  trying to load in yeah this is looking i think  

This is looking really nice and then kind  of approaching into it so we can work on the   interior a little bit more here uh but right  now it’s looking like this a little bit bland  

So yeah let’s work on the interior real quick and  you know most of these we’re just gonna kind of   continue the grid i think so we’re gonna connect  these kind of blocks up we’re going to continue  

Slabs where the stairs are just like that i  think this is going to look nice so we’re going   to do like this containing the slabs basically  taking advantage of the grid system that we have   um that’s what i’d recommend too if you decide  to freestyle uh take advantage of that grid  

And that’s going to make it look very very  nice we’ll do that and then we’ll continue continue continuing right through these as well all right so now i got something kind of like  this and then we’re going to do it the same over  

Here actually as well put put stairs on there  we’ll connect these up we’ll connect these up   and yeah i think to start we’re  basically just going to do this   all the way around i’ll ignore this for  now actually just making this a nice little  

Uh a nice little grid and let’s do that  so let’s do it all the way around here oops and i forgot to fill in this little layer  section so let me just do that real quick  

Okay so yeah so now that we have this grid  pattern set up you can kind of go crazy with this   so you could like go you know like blue concrete  or like whatever your kind of colors are like that  

Could be sort of interesting um i don’t know maybe  having it like that or something i don’t know i’m   not gonna do it for this i’m gonna keep it kind  of really simple uh we’re seeing you keep using   quartz actually let’s look what concrete looks  like white concrete because that might actually  

Look nice having a different kind of color let’s  see that how that looks let’s let’s do this uh   part of the section in white all right so now  we can see this is how white concrete would look  

Um it’s a little bit bland let me see if we can  add some can you have like a lantern or something   to it sea lantern maybe actually let me use uh  what is that called glow shroom or stream berry  

Oh god okay yeah shroom light let’s add some  stream lights to this in the middle it’s kind   of like a lighting system so then i don’t know  this is kind of it doesn’t look that good honestly  

To be completely honest with you guys but you  know you can kind of go crazy this experiment   a little bit i’m going to really quickly  i’m going to do that let’s try this instead and like that looks kind of that looks kind of  interesting okay so yeah we’ll just go with the  

White concrete for this build but like again go  crazy with it like don’t don’t don’t be limited by   me what i do uh i mean chiseled could look let’s  just try chisel real quick just just for giggles   i mean that looks really nice and then  if you make that a slab or something  

Like that looks pretty cool i  can see how that would fit in but for now we’ll go with the white concrete i  like kind of like kind of like the blue i think um  

It’s up on bluish tint and hue of that it kind  of makes it look kind of nice and add some color you can do something kind of crazy like this   what if you add like a lantern  oh that looks kind of nice

Yeah something like that that could look kind  of cool like adding some lights like that   go crate go crazy with what i’m trying to say  incorporating lighting into this is uh something  

I struggle with so that’s why i’m not doing a very  good job of it uh so if you guys have any like   suggestions in the comments feel free to drop them  in there okay great so now that we have that let’s  

Just times that to zero i recommend adding some  sort of lighting system whether it’s like that or   whether it’s just literally just adding torches to  the ground i think awesome honestly they look fine   as well so now when we get to the interior we’re  gonna actually make this a little bit different um  

Let’s add some torches again just to light this  boy up a little bit i can’t really see anything all right so now as we mentioned before this  is the cello space so this is like the most   sort of like important part of the temple  uh so this is like all your cool stuff’s  

Going to go and so we’re also going to do  that by making the roof a little bit taller   as well we’re going to do something like this  we’re going to raise all the way to the roof   let’s just raise the column to look  through for now on the outer edge  

All right so now you have something like that and  then if you really wanted to you could actually   just open this entire thing up um if you want to  make a lighter entrance that could actually be  

Really awesome to do that i think we’ll keep it  in clothes for now um so let’s just do it like   this we’ll just bring the white concrete up  from this or whatever block you’re using here   all right so we can fill that white concrete  in just like that actually just for now  

Um i feel like i can’t fill the back in all right   so let’s see all right so then yeah so we’re  gonna do like that so you have the columns   like that and then on the top half of that  we’re gonna build slabs all the way across  

Onto the top of that and then same thing  with the other side top half of the blocks and then we’ll connect them on either side  so we can get rid of those blocks actually   and then now again you have an  opportunity to make it in the roof color  

Uh i’ll just keep i’ll just keep going with the  white concrete and then we’ll build this guy up right there and then we’ll add our slabs just  like that so now that’s the first part of the roof   it’s one part of it and now we’re  also going to get rid of these blocks  

Because we’re going to build  this roof at this level now okay so now i got that and then we’ll  build the second part of the roof cool we’ll do the same on this side so  just above the layer where the slabs are  

We can just build our decoration block  our background block the interior and then underneath this i would  just place a slab like that i can’t even see anymore yeah so build a slab layer like that  so it’s like a full block basically

I think i also want to do this  too is we’re going to build   a cross like this and then  we’ll do something like that that way it’s like kind of like holding it almost  and we’ll go this a cro goes across like that

All right so yeah we’re gonna we’re gonna build  pattern like this i lied so get rid of that sorry   so we’re gonna have the three bottom slides like  that where the columns are have a stair like that  

And then slabs like that and then it’s there  like that and then we’re going to do this on   all of them here i think this will just give it a  nice it’ll just kind of make it look uh kind of go  

Align with the grid a little better and i think  it’ll just look nicer to be honest so let’s just okay so that’s something i don’t  know what do you guys think of that   looks kind of weird maybe let’s add uh we’ll add  some statues like that so let’s add some detail

These kind of these aren’t really statues  but they’re kind of statues that kind of   it’ll look like statues i think yeah you know   just adding some detail uh some stuff like  that basically i could have had like that wait do they all have other okay so she doesn’t like that now

So let’s do something like this for us you know  for some skeleton skeletons what am i saying   geez uh statues just have  them alternate every other and then like this one could  be i don’t know just something something like that oh wait let’s do that something like that

And then none just look at that you gotta  have a nice little space let me add actually   let me add this guy across over here as well wait i have no idea i built that  

I now it was looking like that right close enough  all right so yeah so this is this is it this is   a build right here uh don’t miss that block uh  you probably want to add some lighting so let me  

Maybe a c c lantern would actually look nicer um  if you don’t have access to that uh sorry pal now   it’s kind of yeah this actually looks a lot nicer  because it’s kind of the same kind of bluish tone  

All right so yeah here we go so this is  your little base you know you put some   chests let’s see get some chest down you know now  it’s kidding yeah so yeah this is little central  

Area you can kind of make this into a base yeah  whatever uh go crazy with it i’m excited as you   guys do but yeah this has been this build  so far uh let me know what you guys think  

Let me put let me get this in did not sunset even  though it’s golden hour you know our golden light   let’s do that and then we’re gonna change it  to a shader just to make this look a lot nicer  

All right wow look at that ignore that guy  in the background this is looking good man   i think it looks pretty good minus the  little asymmetrical lighting right there   uh let’s actually not let’s get rid of  this real quick let’s just not do this uh  

Here don’t mind if i just swoop on in so yeah  so this is the build this is the greek temple um   yeah so yeah this is it this is the greek  temple uh let me know what you guys think  

Down in the comments below uh this is pretty  nice i think i think it turned out really well   let’s just walk let’s take a little  view through here on the other side   with the shade around it makes everything look  nicer you know the hall did gigantic room you  

Could put a statue or something here or like you  know as mentioned before you could put a base   but yeah this is i think this is looking  great this is a nice little build so yeah leave a comment down  below uh like favorite subscribe  

Let me know if you guys what next tutorial i  should make uh and yeah thank you for watching you