Well, to be fair, being on the Bridge in a Robotech ship is the absolute most dangerous place you can be. Hell, nearly all of the original bridge crew died when the Daedelus arm was hit in the original series
I think they're designed like those ST:NG bridges where nothing is grounded, and any hit the ship takes automatically surges up to the bridge and kills anyone near a panel.
Macross bridges on the other hand are the safest place in the universe. Hell, in Macross II, the whole ship went up, but the bridge coasted down to safety.