The Water House Restaurant, Hoxton is an eco-friendly restaurant by restaurateurs Arthur Potts Dawson and Jamie Grainger-Smith. The restaurant is an offshoot of the well-known Acorn House restaurant famous for its eco-sensitive theme with energy-saving hydro-carbon fridges.

In addition to the ground-breaking eco-design of the Acorn House, the Water House Restaurant has a revolutionary high-tech passive cooling system which comprises of SPC’s Thermatile Radiant Cooling Panels to provide cooling and is linked to a heat exchanger located in the canal next to the restaurant.

During warm periods, the canal water is much cooler than the air inside the restaurant. The radiant cooling panels absorb heat from the restaurant and expel this heat via the closed water circuit linked to the heat exchanger in the canal. A pump circulates the cooled water through the pipe system connecting the Thermatile Radiant Cooling Panels to the heat exchanger which dissipates the extracted heat and ensures the restaurant stays cool and fresh during the summer months.

The eco-friendly design of the cooling system which includes specially painted perforated radiant panels as the main cooling element was a concept thought up by Waugh Thistleton Architects and Michael Popper Associates with the installation completed by Wilden Services Limited on behalf of WFC Interior Consultants + Contractors.