This research aims to contribute to the discussion of the importance of the relationship between the residents and the collective and public spaces of housing estates as an essential aspect for the stability, permanence and quality of life of its inhabitants. In this work, I intend to develop the discussion about the relationship between the dwelling and the appropriation of space, having as a case study the Conjunto Ismael Silva - Zé Keti of the Minha Casa Minha Vida (PMCMV) Program. The objective of this research is to investigate the extent to which the layout of buildings and urban insertion contribute to the relationship between their residents and the private, collective and public spaces of this group. In other words, I try to understand how the constructed form can influence the relationship we have with the environment in which we live through this case study. The relationship we have with the environment in which we live is reciprocal: in the same way that we shape the places, we are also molded by them. In this sense, this research is oriented mainly by the concepts of dwelling, which consists of the basic way in which we relate to the world, and the appropriation of space, which goes beyond simple use and creates bonds of belonging and identity between people and the place. Both concepts are approached by different fields of knowledge. The dwelling arises in philosophy, as subject of studies of Martin Heidegger and Gaston Bachelard, influencing authors of the field of the architecture like Christian Norberg-Schulz and Juhani Pallasmaa. The concept of appropriation of space is approached by authors such as Herman Hertzberger (architecture), Enric Pol (environmental psychology), Marco Mello and Arno Vogel (anthropology and sociology). The set Ismael Silva - Zé Keti, destined to the 1st track of the PMCMV, was inaugurated in 2014 and built in place of the Frei Caneca Penitentiary Complex, in the Estácio neighborhood. What propitiated the choice of this set as a case study were some particularities in relation to other projects of the My House My Life Program with regard to morphology, urban insertion and forms of appropriation of space. From these particularities derive four specific objectives of this research. The first one is to identify that other ways, in addition to the adaptation of part of the apartments in commercial activity, the residents of this development find to maintain old habits and ways of appropriating the spaces in this new place of dwelling. The second is to investigate whether in this set there is in fact an isolation, physical or social, in relation to the place where it was built. Considering that in addition to the differences, there are also typical aspects of PMCM ventures, the third specific objective of this research is to understand the architectonic and urban aspects of this Program within the scope of housing policies that precede it. Finally, I also investigate the context and the reasons that guided the differentiated conception of Ismael Silva - Zé Keti.