South of Geneva, Switzerland, the Aire River runs across a plain that for centuries has been agricultural land.
Since the late nineteenth century, the waterway has been embanked for flood protection, which has caused a gradual loss of habitat for a large variety of plants and animals.
In 2001, a decision was made to renaturalize the river.
Yet rather than merely reconstructing the river's former natural bed, Superpositions, the association of firms commissioned with the project, applied topo.