Super in reverse.

[Prince of Durham]

Has anyone tried supering from the bottom up? By this I mean always keeping the brood box at the top. I was just reading about some of the vertical top bar hives and that the natural way for bees is to build down and thought that it would be a good way of swarm control. Given that you could keep a queen excluder in place under the brood box at all times.
Of course removing the honey crop would pose a problem, but its hardly a walk in the park with the present system...

[alldigging]

Is it the warre hive that does it that way..?

Lot of moving of the box with the queen in ... More risk of losing her I think...

[ploshkin]

It is natural for bees to build downwards but it is natural for them to store food above the brood nest. In the normal configuration, if you put a super containing stores under the brood box, the bees will move the stores up. If you leave a queen excluder under the brood box the drones will be trapped in there.

[sir david]

Its called nadiring and its what the Warré Hive is all about
see here Beekeeping with the Warr hive -- Methods

Basically its a system without using foundation . You add boxes on the bottom and harvest boxes from the top . You let the bees do what they want in each box .

David