Yes, that sense of vertical layering is important. It will help cohere and enrich the design. There's something about how envelopes get layered with various markings indicating their passage through different places at different moments in time, so that, at the point of delivery, there has been a considerable process of additions/'adding to' the original cover (see attached). And how by revealing the lower layers of the site palimpsest (via 'taking away') we are doing the same sort of thing in reverse.
There's also something about how these postal markings create odd juxtapositions, record different kinds of 'touch', and undermine the sender's carefully considered original composition/positioning of written address and licked stamp against the rectangle of the envelope. How the underlying field boundaries, railway and military buildings, etc. are partially revealed or acknowledged in the future site similarly disrupts the original design intent and agenda.
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