The Bridging Point Part 1 Project 2025 Elizabeth Matthews Northumbria University Newcastle | UK The Bridging Point is a museum and community building located over a former industrial quay in Wallsend, North Tyneside - a landscape long defined by shipbuilding, fabrication and waste. Rather than retreating from this context, the project embraces and reimagines it, weaving together past and future, industry and imagination.At its core is a response to the underrepresentation of women in industrial and STEM fields. The architecture becomes a platform for recognition, dialogue and progression - a place where collective learning and visibility are brought into focus.The building’s form draws inspiration from the lateral connectivity of the female brain, translating this neurological structure into a series of interlinked volumes that span the quay. Movement through the building mirrors the flow of ideas, encouraging discovery and collaboration.Clad in corrugated metal and glass, and framed in a bespoke bright red steel truss, the structure echoes the language of the site while offering a contemporary response. A layered landscape strategy opens up the waterfront, framing views and inviting public interaction.The Bridging Point proposes more than a museum- it is a call to acknowledge unseen labour, challenge embedded norms, and imagine spaces shaped by equity, regeneration and shared memory. Tutor(s) Pablo Martinez Capdevila