This artistic rendering shows Benoit Challand's fictional Roost Home, a dream home in the Scotland countryside. (Image: Benoit Challand/Alexis Raimbault)

Winter has been brutal in the U.S. and the U.K., and artist Beniot Challand's newly released renderings of a secluded home on stilts in the Scotland countryside looks like the perfect escape.

Challandspecializes in digital art and CGI design. He came up with the idea for Roost House during a research project into philosopher Michael Foucault's theory on heterotopia, which Challand defines as "a physic utopia" place. The Roost House isChalland's vision of a perfect home, combining elements of seclusion, scenery and environmental awareness.

"Located in a landscape far from human activity, the houses's high level gives it the independence ... and appears to float in the air," Challand explains. "It looks like a ship on open sea isolated from the world, face to face with elements and nature."

Solar panels and wind turbines would make the home self-sufficient. By using wood as the main building material inside and out, the home blends in with its natural surroundings.

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Challand's Roost Home is, for now, just an artist's dream. You can see more of his work at benoitchalland.com,as well as onFacebook and Behance.

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