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I had no idea what either of these were, so I googled and found: http://www.42u.com/cooling/hot-aisle-containment.htm

Within that, I found the following section:

Comfort Temperature
Proponents of this design, when comparing it to Cold Aisle Containment, often discuss the overall data center temperature. Cold Aisle Containment isolates temperatures at the server intake, meaning the rest of the room is subject to server exhaust temperatures. Hot aisle containment isolates temperatures at the server exhaust while the rest of the room feels akin to the server intake temperature. The result: a more palatable overall temperature for those working in and passing through the data center.

As I read it, they are saying that it is easier for the people working in the data center if they can be in the cold aisle along with the servers' intake. In cold aisle containment, there is only a small area for which that is true. With hot aisle containment, the cool area is bigger. With cold aisle containment, people either have to work in the hot aisle or at least go through it to get to the cold aisle.

At my place of employment, we do something similar to http://www.42u.com/images/great-lakes-exhaust-chimney-diagram.jpg. There is no hot air anywhere outside of the cab.

This already exists, and is in use in many data centers, they are called Air Side Economizers, http://www.42u.com/cooling/air-side-economizers.htm

I honestly haven't used it, but it came up over a project a few years back and I'd been meaning to try it out myself. Our data center is about 5 miles from the office and about 15 miles from my home and we manage mostly via ssh/rdp/vnc with the occasional on-site visit as needed.

This http://www.42u.com/rackmount-lcd-monitor-1u15.htm is a rackmounted LCD monitor and keyboard. It takes the space of 1U on a rack and I don't see it coming off that rack sleigh, so it may not be what you want. But you could give it a try.

Check this.

This is actually a great idea...

Drop a few bucks on an LCD panel display (they run really cool, so wrapping them in plastic shouldn't be an issue if you don't run them that way 24 / 7) and then get your keyboard covered with the plastic skin linked at the top of the comments. Use something like an Apex cat5 KVM converter to allow you to control a box back in the safety of your office.

Something like this for example would allow you to skip the whole "buy a second PC" and just control your existing PC from the shop

Your problem all ready has a proper solution.