This research aims to describe the social process of community building in the Villa Karen II residential complex, located in a neighborhood called El Porvenir in Bogota, which was created as a Priority Housing policy for families who were victims of forced displacement in Colombia. Throughout the text, the author explores what it means and implies inhabiting a new residential place in spatial and social terms, starting from the fact that the mutual configuration of the physical and social space can be observed through the practices of inhabitants' daily life in the residential complex, starting from the meanings, uses and transformations of the spaces made by the residents, as well as the social relations that are constantly emerging in that scenario. Thus, ethnographic tools such as in-depth interview, participant observation, focus group and social cartography were used to carry out this process from the perspective of the residents. Both, theoretically and methodologically, the research starts from the fact that the spatial appropriation and the configuration of the social relations in this type of spaces begin with the recognition of the place that is made when its inhabitants walk from the nearest place, the house, and then go towards a nearby one, such as pedestrian zones and gardens, and finally reach the farthest, parking lot, lobby and public areas.