Starting with some quick concept models my teammade Ron did, I expanded and elaborated on some more assets and final design and structure of the buildings for the village, including: houses, forge, statue and various assets.

Below is a quick layout sketch of the village to show different assets and how they will be laid out:

Here are some concepts for the main houses of the village. The inspiration for the houses was a very zen, nature and asian inspired dwellings; construed more around the environment with natural materials than into it. The walls would be made of wood or brick and the roof would be covered in grass and trees/shrubs.

Some various assets for the village, including: Signs for the vegetable gardens, stumps, mushrooms, different hay bail concepts and a quick color scheme.

Continuing with the Zen/Asian inspired concept. This would be a shrine of sorts to either the village founder or some warrior hero:

Since the ponies are at war with the alien invaders we thought it was important to have a unique asset in the village that would serve as the forge or weapons area. The initial idea was a basement type structure sunk into the ground with a multitude of chimneys coming out the low laying roof. To distinguish the buildings function we see an anvil, water trough and hammers/weapons laying about: