I think that unwrapping cylinder is going to be necessary, but it seems like you should also include a side view, something that shows a cross section of the cylinder so you can see the size of buildings compared to the structure as a whole, and get a sense of how far away the "other side" is.

More problematic are cluster habitats like Locus, which is "the largest cluster hab ever created, an eleven-kilometer-wide irregular sphere with thousands of habitat modules docked to its skeleton of rings and spars. A conical cutaway with a base about 8.5 kilometers wide (1/4 of the overall circumference of the sphere) runs all the way to its center, forming a 5.5-kilometer-deep central area that is open to space and off limits to large ships. By tradition, the base of the cone is kept pointed toward Proxima Centauri, Sol’s nearest interstellar neighbor."