The Kirloskar group of industries is one of the oldest family owned industrial establishments in Western India. Over the past two decades they have transformed into a cluster of global companies requiring new strategies and production processes. They aim to create an appropriate managerial style, suitable to this new business environment, and hence promoted the Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies.

Located on the periphery of the Pune metropolitan region, the site slopes down the hills of the Sahyadhri mountain range, from a major arterial road. The sloping elevation, from this higher entry point, was exploited to break the fabric of the campus into descending terraces that structure the built fabric into a long stepped section.