Andrei AngelescuManager, Architecture and Design Department, COS

Architect Andrei Angelescu, manager of the Architecture and Design Department within COS, PhD student of the UAUIM doctoral school researches ”New approaches on effective workspace landscape”.

Pursuing the influence of architecture and built space on the individual, Andrei Angelescu analyzes in his paper” Architectural Perception as a Therapeutic Factor” ways to manipulate the environment at the sensory level to control user perception.

Within COS, Andrei Angelescu focused on organizing office spaces, following the organizational structure of the companies that chose COS as a partner for their development projects. Being involved in projects from their initiation together with the beneficiaries, the realization of concepts, technical design, coordination of specialties as well as the follow-up of execution and post-occupational evaluation, Andrei Angelescu gets to lead and develop the COS team of architects and designers. Angelescu initiates the consulting service within COS to improve the quality of workspaces and their impact on users, gaining experience by exchanging information with COS’ partners, Steelcase and Interface, participating in work teams with the same goal of developing new solutions and ideas for organizing office spaces.

COS's involvement in the academic environment is supported by Andrei Angelescu by participating in court commissions and organizing visits with students from different years of the Faculty of Architecture and Interior Architecture in order for them to understand their influence on the future of built space.

During all this time, although specialized in the field of office interior design, Andrei Angelescu did not move away from the design of building architecture.