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Building envelope design incorporates a range of light-related analyses, often providing an essential feedback loop for shaping an envelope’s performance, geometry, or components. This is true for solar radiation studies of envelopes, calculated irrespective of building material or assembly. Extending our light-related analysis to include diffuse lighting effects on a building interior presents an opportunity to explore the translucency, porosity, and forms of materials. Glazed architectural ceramic components fabricated using adaptive robotic manufacturing provide an opportunity to exploit material dynamics within the design and alleviate fabrication waste from molds, ultimately accelerating the production manufacturing system. In addition to analyzing the solar radiation on the building facade design, lighting effects can be engaged in profoundly different ways depending on the degree of design-production agency. The production process can be extended beyond automatic routines using robotic fabrication with levels of autonomous involvement that allow for alternative form expressions of the dynamic clay material. In addition to negotiating several design criteria, the design research will develop an aesthetic character originating from customized clay materials and robotic manufacturing processes for lighting transmittance architectural ceramics.